Cousera introduced Rick Levin, who had been president of Yale for 20 years, as the new CEO.

Two months ago, Cousera introduced Rick Levin, who had been president of Yale for 20 years, as the new CEO, while co-founder Wunda Andrew Ng faded out of Coursera. Today, Andrew Ng's whereabouts finally clear, he will join Baidu, as the chief scientist of Baidu company, responsible for the leadership of Baidu Research Institute, to senior Vice President Wang Jin report.

Andrew Ng's joining Baidu may have been linked to the Baidu Brain Project, where Andrew Ng built a Google Brain project in Google, driving a deep learning algorithm (deep learning) Let the Google lab in 20,000 pictures of the accurate identification of the cat photos, Andrew ng to join the estimated will contribute to Baidu brain.

The following is Baidu to notify Andrew Ng joined the internal mail full text:

Hello everyone

Very happy to inform you, Mr. Wunda today officially joined Baidu, as the chief scientist of Baidu company, responsible for Baidu Research Institute leadership. Mr. Wunda reports to senior vice President Wang Jin.

Wunda attended Raffles College in Singapore in 1992 and received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. He then received a master's degree from MIT in 1998 and a Ph. D. In 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Wunda is an associate professor at Stanford University's Department of Computer Science and electronic Engineering, director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and one of the most authoritative scholars in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Wunda, a professor at Stanford University in 2010, joined the Google development team Xlab and became the founder of Google's Brain, a team that has developed two high-profile projects for Google's driverless cars and Google glasses. Wunda is also one of the Coursera co-founder of the world's largest online free learning website. He launched the "Stanford UB Everywhere" project in 2008, which puts many of Stanford's courses online and learns free of charge. Because of the success of machine learning courses, in 2012, the online education platform Coursera successfully founded, so far the world's largest online free learning website. In 2007, Wunda received the Sloan Award (Sloan Fellowship). Because of his outstanding work in the field of artificial intelligence, he was also the winner of the computer and Ideas award. In 2013, Wunda was selected as one of the 16 scientific and technological representatives of the world's most influential 100 people in Time magazine's year.

We look forward to Dr. Wunda leading the Baidu Research Institute in a series of core information technology, especially artificial intelligence technology direction to achieve significant innovation. Dr. Wu's joining will help Baidu accelerate to become a world-class innovation center, for Baidu to grow into a respectable world-class enterprise, in order to allow people the most equal and convenient access to information, to find the noble mission of seeking to contribute to the important force!