About the author

Jeff Tang fell in love with classical AI more than two decades ago. After his MS in CS, he worked on Machine Translation for 2 years and then, to survive the long AI winter, he worked on enterprise apps, voice apps, web apps, and mobile apps at startups, AOL, Baidu, and Qualcomm. He developed a top-selling iOS app with millions of downloads and was recognized by Google as a Top Android Market Developer. He reconnected with modern AI in 2015 and knew that AI will be his passion and commitment for the next two decades. One of his favorite topics is to make AI available anytime anywhere and hence the book.

I'd like to thank Larissa Pinto for reaching out on the book idea, Flavian Vaz and Akhil Nair for all the feedback during content editing. Many thanks to Pete Warden, the TensorFlow mobile lead at Google, for his help before and after becoming a technical reviewer of the book, and to Amita Kapoor, another technical reviewer of the book, who also provided valuable feedback. Special thanks to Aurélien Géron, the best-seller author of the book Hands-On ML, for kindly responding to all my emails, sharing his insights, and writing the Foreword for the book from his packed agenda - Merci beaucoup, Aurélien.
I also truly appreciate the understanding and support by my family, other than Lisa and Wozi, during the holiday season and all the months while I had to work like crazy day and night on the book - thanks Amy, Anna, Jenny, Sophia, Mark, Sandy, and Ben.