Andrew Ng is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and one of the most influential figures in modern artificial intelligence and machine learning education. Born in London in 1976 and raised in Hong Kong and Singapore, he's currently based in Silicon Valley.

Ng co-founded Google Brain in 2011, where his team built massive neural networks that famously learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos without being explicitly programmed to do so. This work helped spark the current deep learning revolution. He then served as Chief Scientist at Baidu (2014-2017), where he led their AI Group and helped establish China as a major AI power.

Perhaps his greatest impact has been in AI education. In 2011, he co-founded Coursera with Daphne Koller while teaching at Stanford. His Machine Learning course became one of the platform's most popular offerings, taken by millions of students worldwide. He later created deeplearning.ai, which offers specialized deep learning courses, and founded Landing AI to help companies adopt AI technologies.

Ng is known for making complex AI concepts accessible. His teaching style combines mathematical rigor with practical intuition, often using simple visualizations and real-world examples. He's been a vocal advocate for democratizing AI education, believing that AI literacy will become as important as basic computer literacy.

He's also been influential in shaping AI industry practices and ethics. He's written extensively about AI strategy for businesses, the importance of data-centric (rather than model-centric) AI development, and the need for practical AI applications that create real value.