Andrew Ng is a founder and serial AI entrepreneur with nine years of concentrated industry experience building education, research, and product platforms that scale machine learning to millions. He leads DeepLearning.AI and co-founded Coursera, shaping online AI education and producing widely-used, industry-collaborative courses and the influential AI newsletter The Batch. As Managing General Partner at AI Fund and Executive Chairman of LandingAI, he blends venture-building with hands-on ML product strategy—helping launch and operationalize AI startups across sectors while vetting ethics and feasibility. Previously he founded Google Brain and led Baidu’s AI Group, driving early deep learning breakthroughs and large-scale production deployments across search, voice, and autonomous systems. Based in Palo Alto, he combines rigorous academic training (PhD Berkeley, MS MIT, BS Carnegie Mellon) with practitioner instincts, often moving ideas from prototype to large-scale impact. A computational linguist and data engineer by background, he quietly bridges research-level advances and practical developer-focused training that accelerates AI adoption.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Math/Computer Science, Statistics and Economics (triple major), Bachelor of Science - BS, Math/Computer Science, Statistics and Economics (triple major) at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (6)
TypeScriptC++JavaScriptRich Text FormatPythonEmacs Lisp
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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