Daphne Koller
Title: Rajeev Motwani professor of computer science, Stanford University; co-founder, Coursera
Born: August 27, 1968, Jerusalem, Israel
Education: BA and MS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ph.D., Stanford University
Early Marker: Awarded MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Big Idea: Using probabilistic models and machine learning to understand complex, highly uncertain problems in computer vision and in computational biology and medicine.
Wave of the Future: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, online education, biosciences
Andrew Ng
Title: Chief scientist, Baidu; director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab; co-founder and chairman, Coursera
Born: April 18, 1976, London
Education: BS in computer science, Carnegie Mellon University; MS in computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Early Marker: Founded Google's Google Brain project; led development of Stanford University's Massive Open Online Courses
Big Idea: Machine learning and very large-scale artificial neural networks able to learn from labeled and unlabeled data.
Wave of the Future: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, online education, biosciences
