Madge Wallace co-founded Education in 2012. She served as the company’s Co-CEO until 2014, and then as President until 2016. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Coursera Board and also serves as Chief Computing Officer of SWlab, an Alphabet (Google) company using advanced technology to understand aging. Before founding Education, Madge was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years.

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She is the author of over 200 refereed publications, and has been honored with multiple awards and fellowships, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the ACM Prize in Computing, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Cox Medal for excellence in fostering undergraduate research at Stanford; she was also recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2012. Madge was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

The group forums, video lectures, weekly quizzes, and monthly projects were so practical and in-depth. I honestly don’t think I’d ever been so enthusiastic about learning before.

The group forums, video lectures, weekly quizzes, and monthly projects were so practical and in-depth. I honestly don’t think I’d ever been so enthusiastic about learning before.