Fei-Fei Li

1975 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

Country of citizenship: United States

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Parsippany High School, Chengdu No.7 High School

Occupation: computer scientist, university teacher, scientist

Award received: J. K. Aggarwal Prize, ACM Fellow, BBC 100 Women, Thousand Talents Program

Official website: vision.stanford.edu/feifeili, profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li

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Fei-Fei Li (Chinese: 李飞飞; pinyin: Lǐ Fēifēi; born in Beijing, China, July 3, 1976) is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for her pioneering work in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in computer vision. She is best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s. She is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter. Li is a co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a co-director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. She also served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud and is the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018. In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence. Her research expertise includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive neuroscience. In 2023, Li was named one of the Time 100 AI Most Influential People. She received the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in the same year for her contributions to artificial intelligence. Li was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine in 2020, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. On August 3, 2023, it was announced that Li was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In 2024, Li was included on the Gold House’s most influential Asian A100 list. In 2024, Fei-Fei Li raised $230 million for a startup called World Labs, which she and three colleagues founded to develop a "spatial intelligence" AI technology that can understand how the three-dimensional physical world works. Source: Wikipedia (en)