This course is taught by Andrew Ng. Professor Ng is not only one of the founders of Coursera, but is also a prof at Stanford and Chief Scientist at Baidu. Machi

This course is taught by Andrew Ng. Professor Ng is not only one of the founders of Coursera, but is also a prof at Stanford and Chief Scientist at Baidu. Machine Learning (and Deep Learning in particular) is his specialty, so he is a pretty good resource on the topic :)