Andrew Ng
American artificial intelligence researcher
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| 2024 | Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society |
| October 2024 | AI Fund made its first investment in India, backing AI healthcare startup Jivi, which uses AI for diagnoses, treatment recommendations, and administrative tasks. |
| September 2024 | Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the California AI legislation that Ng had previously criticized, which would have imposed significant regulatory requirements on AI model developers. |
| June 2024 | Ng critiqued proposed AI legislation in California in a Financial Times interview, describing a bill with proposed safety mechanisms like a 'kill switch' for advanced AI models as creating 'massive liabilities for science-fiction risks'. |
| April 11 2024 | Appointed to Amazon's board of directors. |
| 2023 | Expanded access to AI education, with an estimated 8 million individuals worldwide taking his courses via platforms like DeepLearning.AI and Coursera. |
| 2023 | Named in Time AI 100 Most Influential People |
| December 2023 | Provided an interview to Financial Times discussing AI regulation, highlighting concerns about potential negative impacts on open-source AI development and innovation. |
| 2021 | Welcomed a son. |
| November 2021 | Landing AI secured $57 million in Series A funding led by McRock Capital, aimed at helping manufacturers adopt computer vision technologies. |
| 2019 | Welcomed a daughter. |
| 2019 | Drive.ai, a company where Andrew Ng was a board member, was acquired by Apple, marking a significant milestone in his involvement with autonomous vehicle technology. |
| 2019 | Launched 'AI for Everyone', a non-technical course designed to help people understand AI's societal impact, benefits, and challenges for companies. |
| 2018 | Contributed a chapter to Martin Ford's book 'Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it'. |
| December 2018 | Wrote AI Transformation Playbook, a sequel to his previous machine learning guide. |
| January 2018 | Unveiled the AI Fund, successfully raising $175 million to invest in new AI startups. |
| 2017 | Launched DeepLearning.AI, an online series of deep learning courses, including the AI for Good Specialization. |
| 2017 | Began advocating for the shift to high-performance computing (HPC) to scale up deep learning and accelerate progress in the field. |
| 2017 | Founded Landing AI, a company providing AI-powered SaaS products. |
| March 2017 | Announced resignation from Baidu, marking the end of his tenure as chief scientist. |
| 2015 | Selected as World Economic Forum Young Global Leader |
| 2014 | Married Carol E. Reiley, who was named by MIT Technology Review as part of an 'AI power couple'. |
| 2014 | Named in Fast Company Most Creative People in Business |
| 2014 | Joined Baidu as chief scientist, establishing research teams for facial recognition, AI chatbots like Melody, and developing the AI platform DuerOS. |
| 2013 | Named in Time 100 Most Influential People and Fortune 40 under 40 |
| 2013 | Featured in CNN 10: Thinkers |
| 2012 | Co-founded Coursera with Stanford computer scientist Daphne Koller, serving as the company's CEO. The online platform offers free courses to a global audience. |
| 2012 | Named in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. |
| 2012 | Continued work at Google Brain, contributing to groundbreaking deep learning research and project development. |
| 2011 | Joined Google and founded the Google Brain Deep Learning Project with Jeff Dean, Greg Corrado, and Rajat Monga, focusing on advancing deep learning research. |
| October 2011 | Launched the applied version of Stanford's Machine Learning class (CS229a) on ml-class.org with over 100,000 students registered, becoming one of the first successful massive open online courses (MOOCs). |
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