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Founder, DeepLearning.AI; Managing General Partner, AI Fund
Andrew Ng works across AI education, research and company building. He founded DeepLearning.AI, leads AI Fund, and serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford. His earlier leadership includes the founding Google Brain team and Baidu’s AI organization. He also co-founded Coursera and founded LandingAI, connecting machine learning training with efforts to help entrepreneurs and established organizations apply the technology.
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Andrew Ng works across AI education, research and company building. He founded DeepLearning.AI, leads AI Fund, and serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford. His earlier leadership includes the founding Google Brain team and Baidu’s AI organization. He also co-founded Coursera and founded LandingAI, connecting machine learning training with efforts to help entrepreneurs and established organizations apply the technology.
- Organizations
- DeepLearning.AI; AI Fund; Stanford University
- Also leads
- Executive Chairman, LandingAI; Chair and co-founder, Coursera
- Previous work
- Founding lead, Google Brain; Chief Scientist, Baidu
Sources checked . Selected career background and milestones.
Career, in context.
Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Begins leading AI Aspire
Amazon’s director biography dates Ng’s managing-partner role at AI Aspire to July 2025, adding an AI strategy advisory organization to his education and venture work.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng director biography ↗Becomes LandingAI Executive Chairman
After serving as LandingAI’s CEO and chairman, Ng becomes executive chairman in August 2024, according to the career chronology in Amazon’s official director biography.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng director biography ↗Joins Amazon’s board
Amazon appoints Ng to its board effective April 9, citing his experience in AI research, education and business as relevant to its technology and adoption decisions.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng board appointment ↗Begins leading AI Fund
Ng starts serving as managing general partner of AI Fund, a venture studio supporting entrepreneurs building AI companies; Amazon’s biography dates the role to January 2018.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng director biography ↗Founds DeepLearning.AI
Ng establishes the AI education company and begins leading it in June 2017, according to Amazon’s biography, expanding his work in accessible machine learning education.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng director biography ↗Begins leading Baidu’s AI research
Ng becomes Baidu’s chief scientist and vice president, roles Amazon’s appointment announcement dates to 2014–2017, following his earlier leadership of the founding Google Brain team.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng board appointment ↗Co-founds Coursera
Ng co-founds Coursera and begins serving as co-CEO in January 2012. Amazon’s biography records that executive tenure through April 2014 and his subsequent chairmanship.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng director biography ↗Leads the founding Google Brain project
Amazon’s account dates Ng’s service as founding lead of Google Brain to 2011–2012, documenting his role in Google’s early organized deep learning research effort.
Source: Amazon: Andrew Ng board appointment ↗
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