“One of the things Baidu did well early on was to create an internal platform that made it possible for any engineer to apply deep learning to whatever application they wanted to, including applications that AI researchers like me would never have thought of.”

British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur

Andrew Ng is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur known for his work in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is associated with some of the field’s most visible industry efforts and has become a prominent public voice on how these technologies are built and used. Ng co-founded and led Google Brain, and later served as chief scientist at Baidu. His work sits at the intersection of research and industry, with a focus on advancing machine learning systems and AI applications.