“One of the things that Baidu did well early on was to create an internal platform for deep learning. What that did was enable engineers all across the company, including people who were not AI researchers, to leverage deep learning in all sorts of creative ways - applications that an AI researcher like me never would 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.