Daphne Koller

Professor and computer scientist Daphne works at Stanford University's Department of Computer Science. She is most recognized for being a co-founder of Coursers, the largest MOOC platform in the world. Artificial intelligence and its use in biological sciences are her main areas of study. Her work focuses on ideas like representation, inference learning, and decision-making in computer vision and computational biology applications.

In 2012, Daphne and Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera, where she also served as co-CEO. She later assumed the position of President of Coursera, and in 2012, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most important people in the world. She was included in the 2014 edition of Fast Company's Most Creative People list. She departed Coursera in 2016 to take the position of chief information officer at Calico. In 2018, she changed her career path and founded the drug discovery business Insitro. She co-wrote a book on probabilistic graphical models in 2009. In February 2012, she subsequently provided the material as a free online course.