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Taught machine learning at Stanford for two decades before co-founding Coursera with Andrew Ng in 2012, turning free online courses from a novelty into a genuine alternative path to a technical education for millions of people. Left Google's Calico life-extension venture in 2018 to found Insitro, which applies machine learning to drug discovery on the premise that better models of biology, not more chemistry, are what the field is actually short of. Grew up in Jerusalem; elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.