Andrew Ng to Step Down as CEO of LandingAI, Focus on Investment

TapTechNews August 26th news, according to TechCrunch's report on August 23rd, AI scholar Andrew Ng will step down as the CEO of the computer vision platform LandingAI he founded in 2017 and take up the post of executive chairman, and former chief operating officer Dan Maloney will take over as CEO.

Andrew Ng has served in companies such as Google Brain, Coursera, and Baidu. He was appointed as a member of Amazon's board of directors this April. His AI foundation just announced plans to raise an additional $120 million (TapTechNews note: currently about 855 million yuan). Media analysis suggests that this job transfer indicates that he will temporarily focus on investment.

TapTechNews attached introduction of Andrew Ng:

Andrew Ng, the founder of DeepLearning.AI, the founder of LandingAI, the co-founder of Coursera, an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and the former founder and head of the Deep Learning Project at Google Brain, the former chief scientist of Baidu, and the former director of the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Andrew Ng was born in London, UK in 1976. He obtained triple major degrees in computer science, statistics, and economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002.