Andrew Ng is one of our co-founders and served as Co-CEO until 2014. He has served as our Chairman of the Board since our inception in 2014. Dr. Ng is a leading voice in artificial intelligence (AI) and online education. In 2013, he was named in the Time100 list of the most influential people in the world. Dr. Ng has served as Managing General Partner of AI Fund, a venture studio that supports entrepreneurs in building AI companies, since January 2018. Dr. Ng also has led DeepLearning.AI, an education technology company he founded to provide AI training, since June 2017. Dr. Ng is also the Founder of LandingAI, which provides visual AI solutions, where he has served as Executive Chairman since August 2024 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from October 2017 to August 2024. Dr. Ng has also served as the Managing Partner of AI Aspire, an advisory firm for AI strategy, since its formation in July 2025. Dr. Ng currently also serves as an adjunct professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. From April 2017 to May 2024, he was Chief Scientist at Baidu, Inc., a multinational technology company, where he led the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. Dr. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain team from 2011 to 2012. In 2011, Dr. Ng led the development of Stanford’s first massive open online course (MOOC) platform and launched an online machine learning class that reached over 100,000 students—an initiative that inspired the creation of Coursera. Since April 2024, Dr. Ng has served on the board of Amazon.com, Inc. In addition, Dr. Ng is a board member of several privately-held companies engaged in AI. Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.