人物經曆
吳恩達1976年出生于倫敦，父親是一位香港醫生，英文名叫AndrewNg，吳恩達年輕時候在香港和新加坡度過。1992年吳恩達就讀新加坡萊佛士書院，并于1997年獲得了卡内基梅隆大學的計算機科學學士學位。之後他在1998年獲得了麻省理工學院的碩士學位，并于2002年獲得了加州大學伯克利分校的博士學位，并從這年開始在斯坦福大學工作。他（2002年）住在加利福尼亞州的帕洛阿爾托。
2010年，時任斯坦福大學教授的吳恩達加入谷歌開發團隊XLab——這個團隊已先後為谷歌開發無人駕駛汽車和谷歌眼鏡兩個知名項目。
吳恩達與谷歌頂級工程師開始合作建立全球最大的“神經網絡”，這個神經網絡能以與人類大腦學習新事物相同的方式來學習現實生活。谷歌将這個項目命名為“谷歌大腦”。
吳恩達最知名的是，所開發的人工神經網絡通過觀看一周YouTube視頻，自主學會識别哪些是關于貓的視頻。這個案例為人工智能領域翻開嶄新一頁。吳恩達表示，未來将會在谷歌無人駕駛汽車上使用該項技術，來識别車前面的動物或者小孩，從而及時躲避。
2014年5月16日，百度宣布吳恩達加入百度，擔任百度公司首席科學家，負責百度研究院的領導工作，尤其是BaiduBrain計劃。
2014年5月19日，百度宣布任命吳恩達博士為百度首席科學家，全面負責百度研究院。這是中國互聯網公司迄今為止引進的最重量級人物。消息一經公布，就成為國際科技界的關注話題。美國權威雜志《麻省理工科技評論》(MITTechnologyReview)甚至用充滿激情的筆調對未來給予展望：“百度将領導一個創新的軟件技術時代，更加了解世界。”
所獲榮譽
2007年，吳恩達獲得斯隆獎（SloanFellowship）。
2008年，吳恩達入選“theMITTechnologyReviewTR35”，即《麻省理工科技創業》雜志評選出的科技創新35俊傑，入選者是35歲以下的35個世界上最頂級的創新者之一。
“計算機和思想獎”的獲得者。
2013年，吳恩達入選《時代》雜志年度全球最有影響力100人，成為16位科技界代表之一。
主要成就
機器學習
吳恩達早期的工作包括斯坦福自動控制直升機項目，
吳恩達團隊開發了世界上最先進的自動控制直升機之一。
吳恩達同時也是機器學習、機器人技術和相關領域的100多篇論文的作者或合作者，他在計算機視覺的一些工作被一系列的出版物和評論文章所重點引用。
人工智能
早期的另一項工作是theSTAIR(StanfordArtificialIntelligenceRobot)project，即斯坦福人工智能機器人項目，項目最終開發了廣泛使用的開源機器人技術軟件平台ROS。
2011年，吳恩達在谷歌成立了“GoogleBrain”項目，這個項目利用谷歌的分布式計
算框架計算和學習大規模人工神經網絡。這個項目重要研究成果是，在16000個CPU核心上利用深度學習算法學習到的10億參數的神經網絡，能夠在沒有任何先驗知識的情況下，僅僅通過觀看無标注的YouTube的視頻學習到識别高級别的概念，如貓，這就是著名的“GoogleCat”。這個項目的技術已經被應用到了安卓操作系統的語音識别系統上。
在線教育
吳恩達是在線教育平台Coursera的聯合創始人，吳恩達
在2008年發起了“StanfordEngineeringEverywhere”（SEE）項目，這個項目把斯坦福的許多課程放到網上，供免費學習。NG也教了一些課程，如機器學習課程，包含了他錄制的視頻講座和斯坦福CS299課程的學生材料。
吳恩達的理想是讓世界上每個人能夠接受高質量的、免費的教育。今天，Coursera和世界上一些頂尖大學的合作者們一起提供高質量的免費在線課程。Coursera是世界上最大的MOOC平台。
學術着作
DeepLearningwithCOTSHPCSystems
AdamCoates,BrodyHuval,TaoWang,DavidJ.Wu,BryanCatanzaroandAndrewY.NginICML2013.
ParsingwithCompositionalVectorGrammars
JohnBauer,RichardSocher,ChristopherD.Manning,AndrewY.NginACL2013.
LearningNewFactsFromKnowledgeBasesWithNeuralTensorNetworksandSemanticWordVectors
DanqiChen,RichardSocher,ChristopherD.Manning,AndrewY.NginICLR2013.
Convolutional-RecursiveDeepLearningfor3DObjectClassification.
RichardSocher,BrodyHuval,BharathBhat,ChristopherD.Manning,AndrewY.NginNIPS2012.
ImprovingWordRepresentationsviaGlobalContextandMultipleWordPrototypes
EricH.Huang,RichardSocher,ChristopherD.ManningandAndrewY.NginACL2012.
LargeScaleDistributedDeepNetworks.
J.Dean,G.S.Corrado,R.Monga,K.Chen,M.Devin,Q.V.Le,M.Z.Mao,M.A.Ranzato,A.Senior,P.Tucker,K.Yang,A.Y.NginNIPS2012.
RecurrentNeuralNetworksforNoiseReductioninRobustASR.
A.L.Maas,Q.V.Le,T.M.O'Neil,O.Vinyals,P.Nguyen,andAndrewY.NginInterspeech2012.
Word-levelAcousticModelingwithConvolutionalVectorRegressionLearningWorkshop.
AndrewL.Maas,StephenD.Miller,TylerM.O'Neil,AndrewY.Ng,andPatrickNguyeninICML2012.
EmergenceofObject-SelectiveFeaturesinUnsupervisedFeatureLearning.
AdamCoates,AndrejKarpathy,andAndrewY.NginNIPS2012.
DeepLearningofInvariantFeaturesviaSimulatedFixationsinVideo.
WillY.Zou,ShenghuoZhu,AndrewY.Ng,KaiYuinNIPS2012.
LearningFeatureRepresentationswithK-means.
AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginNeuralNetworks:TricksoftheTrade,Reloaded,SpringerLNCS2012.
BuildingHigh-LevelFeaturesusingLargeScaleUnsupervisedLearning.
QuocV.Le,Marc'AurelioRanzato,RajatMonga,MatthieuDevin,KaiChen,GregS.Corrado,JeffreyDeanandAndrewY.NginICML2012.
SemanticCompositionalitythroughRecursiveMatrix-VectorSpaces.
RichardSocher,BrodyHuval,ChristopherD.ManningandAndrewY.NginEMNLP2012.
End-to-EndTextRecognitionwithConvolutionalNeuralNetworks.
TaoWang,DavidJ.Wu,AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginICPR2012.
SelectingReceptiveFieldsinDeepNetworks.
AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginNIPS2011.
ICAwithReconstructionCostforEfficientOvercompleteFeatureLearning.
QuocV.Le,AlexKarpenko,JiquanNgiamandAndrewY.NginNIPS2011.
SparseFiltering.
JiquanNgiam,PangweiKoh,ZhenghaoChen,SoniaBhaskarandAndrewY.NginNIPS2011.
UnsupervisedLearningModelsofPrimaryCorticalReceptiveFieldsandReceptiveFieldPlasticity.
AndrewSaxe,ManeeshBhand,RitvikMudur,BipinSureshandAndrewY.NginNIPS2011.
DynamicPoolingandUnfoldingRecursiveAutoencodersforParaphraseDetection
RichardSocher,EricH.Huang,JeffreyPennington,AndrewY.Ng,andChristopherD.ManninginNIPS2011.
Semi-SupervisedRecursiveAutoencodersforPredictingSentimentDistributions.
RichardSocher,JeffreyPennington,EricHuang,AndrewY.Ng,andChristopherD.ManninginEMNLP2011.
TextDetectionandCharacterRecognitioninSceneImageswithUnsupervisedFeatureLearning.
AdamCoates,BlakeCarpenter,CarlCase,SanjeevSatheesh,BipinSuresh,TaoWang,DavidWuandAndrewY.NginICDAR2011.
ParsingNaturalScenesandNaturalLanguagewithRecursiveNeuralNetworks.
RichardSocher,CliffLin,AndrewY.NgandChristopherManninginICML2011.
TheImportanceofEncodingVersusTrainingwithSparseCodingandVectorQuantization.
AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginICML2011.
OnOptimizationMethodsforDeepLearning.
QuocV.Le,JiquanNgiam,AdamCoates,AbhikLahiri,BobbyProchnowandAndrewY.NginICML2011.
LearningDeepEnergyModels.
JiquanNgiam,ZhenghaoChen,PangweiKohandAndrewY.NginICML2011.
MultimodalDeepLearning.
JiquanNgiam,AdityaKhosla,MingyuKim,JuhanNam,HonglakLeeandAndrewY.NginICML2011.
OnRandomWeightsandUnsupervisedFeatureLearning.
AndrewSaxe,PangweiKoh,ZhenghaoChen,ManeeshBhand,BipinSureshandAndrewY.NginICML2011.
LearningHierarchicalSpatio-TemporalFeaturesforActionRecognitionwithIndependentSubspaceAnalysis.
QuocV.Le,WillZou,SerenaYeungandAndrewY.NginCVPR2011.
AnAnalysisofSingle-LayerNetworksinUnsupervisedFeatureLearning.
AdamCoates,HonglakLeeandAndrewNginAISTATS14,2011.
LearningWordVectorsforSentimentAnalysis.
AndrewL.Maas,RaymondE.Daly,PeterT.Pham,DanHuang,AndrewY.Ng,andChristopherPottsinACL2011.
ALow-costCompliant7-DOFRoboticManipulator.
MorganQuigley,AlanAsbeckandAndrewY.NginICRA2011.
GraspingwithApplicationtoanAutonomousCheckoutRobot.
EllenKlingbeil,DeepakDrao,BlakeCarpenter,VarunGanapathi,OussamaKhatib,AndrewY.NginICRA2011.
AutonomousSignReadingforSemanticMapping.
CarlCase,BipinSuresh,AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginICRA2011.
LearningContinuousPhraseRepresentationsandSyntacticParsingwithRecursiveNeuralNetworks.
RichardSocher,ChristopherManningandAndrewNginNIPS2010.
AProbabilisticModelforSemanticWordVectors.
AndrewMaasandAndrewNginNIPS2010.
TiledConvolutionalNeuralNetworks.
QuocV.Le,JiquanNgiam,ZhenghaoChen,DanielChia,PangweiKohandAndrewY.NginNIPS2010.
EnergyDisaggregationviaDiscriminativeSparseCoding.
J.ZicoKolterandAndrewY.NginNIPS2010.
AutonomousHelicopterAerobaticsthroughApprenticeshipLearning.
PieterAbbeel,AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginIJRR2010.
AutonomousOperationofNovelElevatorsforRobotNavigation.
EllenKlingbeil,BlakeCarpenter,OlgaRussakovskyandAndrewY.NginICRA2010.
LearningtoGraspObjectswithMultipleContactPoints.
QuocLe,DavidKammandAndrewY.NginICRA2010.
Multi-CameraObjectDetectionforRobotics.
AdamCoatesandAndrewY.NginICRA2010.
AProbabilisticApproachtoMixedOpen-loopandClosed-loopControl,withApplicationtoExtremeAutonomousDriving.
J.ZicoKolter,ChristianPlagemann,DavidT.Jackson,AndrewY.NgandSebastianThruninICRA2010.
GraspingNovelObjectswithDepthSegmentation.
DeepakRao,QuocV.Le,ThanathornPhoka,MorganQuigley,AttawithSudsandandAndrewY.NginIROS2010.
Low-costAccelerometersforRoboticManipulatorPerception.
MorganQuigley,ReubenBrewer,SaiP.Soundararaj,VijayPradeep,QuocV.LeandAndrewY.NginIROS2010.
ASteinerTreeApproachtoObjectDetection.
OlgaRussakovskyandAndrewY.NginCVPR2010.
MeasuringInvariancesinDeepNetworks.
IanJ.Goodfellow,QuocV.Le,AndrewM.Saxe,HonglakLeeandAndrewY.NginNIPS2009.
UnsupervisedFeatureLearningforAudioClassificationUsingConvolutionalDeepBeliefNetworks.
HonglakLee,YanLargman,PeterPhamandAndrewY.NginNIPS2009.
ConvolutionalDeepBeliefNetworksforScalableUnsupervisedLearningofHierarchicalRepresentations.
HonglakLee,RogerGrosse,RajeshRanganathandAndrewY.NginICML2009.
Large-scaleDeepUnsupervisedLearningusingGraphicsProcessors.
RajatRaina,AnandMadhavanandAndrewY.NginICML2009.
Amajorization-minimizationalgorithmfor(multiple)hyperparameterlearning.
ChuanShengFoo,ChuongDoandAndrewY.NginICML2009.
RegularizationandFeatureSelectioninLeast-SquaresTemporalDifferenceLearning.
J.ZicoKolterandAndrewY.NginICML2009.
Near-BayesianExplorationinPolynomialTime.
J.ZicoKolterandAndrewY.NginICML2009.
PolicySearchviatheSignedDerivative.
J.ZicoKolterandAndrewY.NginRSS2009.
JointCalibrationofMultipleSensors.
QuocLeandAndrewY.NginIROS2009.
ScalableLearningforObjectDetectionwithGPUHardware.
AdamCoates,PaulBaumstarck,QuocLe,andAndrewY.NginIROS2009.
ExponentialFamilySparseCodingwithApplicationtoSelf-taughtLearning.
HonglakLee,RajatRaina,AlexTeichmanandAndrewY.NginIJCAI2009.
ApprenticeshipLearningforHelicopterControl.
AdamCoates,PieterAbbeelandAndrewY.NginCommunicationsoftheACM,Volume52,2009.
ROS:AnOpen-SourceRobotOperatingSystem.
MorganQuigley,BrianGerkey,KenConley,JoshFaust,TullyFoote,JeremyLeibs,EricBerger,RobWheeler,andAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
High-Accuracy3DSensingforMobileManipulation:ImprovingObjectDetectionandDoorOpening.
MorganQuigley,SiddharthBatra,StephenGould,EllenKlingbeil,QuocLe,AshleyWellmanandAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
StereoVisionandTerrainModelingforQuadrupedRobots.
J.ZicoKolter,YoungjunKimandAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
Task-SpaceTrajectoriesviaCubicSplineOptimization.
J.ZicoKolterandAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
LearningSoundLocationfromaSingleMicrophone.
AshutoshSaxenaandAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
Learning3-DObjectOrientationfromImages.
AshutoshSaxena,JustinDriemeyerandAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
ReactiveGraspingUsingOpticalProximitySensors.
KaijenHsiao,PaulNangeroni,ManfredHuber,AshutoshSaxenaandAndrewY.NginICRA2009.
