Andrew Y. Ng

Ng has probably onboarded more people into machine learning than any single human alive, and that's his real superpower. His Stanford and Coursera courses are how a whole generation, myself included in spirit, first understood gradient descent and backpropagation without drowning. Beyond the teaching, founding Google Brain and steering Baidu's AI gave him genuine frontier credibility, so when he advocates for practical, data-centric AI rather than hype, people listen. What I admire is his relentless clarity; he explains hard ideas without dumbing them down. He's less a flashy researcher than a great communicator and institution-builder, and the field is far more accessible because of him.

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Andrew Y. Ng is a British-American computer scientist and entrepreneur born April 18, 1976, in London, United Kingdom. A leading figure in machine learning and online education, he co-founded Google Brain, served as Chief Scientist at Baidu, and is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He co-founded the online learning platform Coursera and the AI education company DeepLearning.AI, and founded Landing AI.

Name (English)

Andrew Y. Ng

Name (Japanese)

アンドリュー・ング

Reading

あんどりゅー・んぐ

Born

April 18, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

Artificial intelligence researcher / Computer scientist / University professor / Entrepreneur

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

University

Carnegie Mellon University

• Official sitehttps://www.andrewng.org/
• Xhttps://x.com/AndrewYNg
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Ng
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2846695

Tags

• Artificial intelligence researcher
• Computer scientist
• University professor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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