Andrew Ng

Age: 38

Current job: Head of research for Chinese search engine Baidu, overseeing labs in Sunnyvale and Beijing; also chairman and cofounder of Coursera

Career:

-- Taught and conducted research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics at Stanford starting in 2002; currently on leave as associate professor of computer science and director of Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab.

-- Helped launch an online education program at Stanford and later cofounded Coursera, a venture-funded online education startup.

-- Worked at Google X, the company's experimental division, where he helped lead the Google Brain project to develop large-scale neural network technology, now used for speech recognition in Google's Android mobile operating system.

Education: Earned bachelor's degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Personal: Born in the United Kingdom, lives in Silicon Valley.

Sources: Staff research

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