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Fei-Fei Li is a pioneering computer scientist known for her foundational work in artificial intelligence, currently serving as the Sequoia Capital Professor at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.
Fei-Fei Li served as Vice President and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud from January 2017 to September 2018. Her team focused on making AI technology more accessible to businesses and developers, including developing products like AutoML.
Fei-Fei Li is the Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, an AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence and generative AI. In September 2024, the company raised $230 million in funding and achieved a $1 billion valuation, aiming to advance AI's ability to process visual data like humans and enable robotic systems to perform tasks based on verbal instructions.
Fei-Fei Li co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence by educating the next generation of AI technologists based on human-centered AI principles. This initiative was created in collaboration with Melinda French Gates and Jensen Huang.
Fei-Fei Li is a partner at Radical Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on AI. She joined the firm because she believes in the transformative power of AI and the importance of supporting its responsible development alongside entrepreneurial innovation.
Fei-Fei Li received the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in 2023 for her profound contributions to artificial intelligence, reinforcing her impact on the field's advancements and future direction.
Born in Beijing, China, in 1976, Fei-Fei Li immigrated to the United States at the age of 15, living in Parsippany, New Jersey. She graduated from Parsippany High School in 1995. Li earned her B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1999, followed by an M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Her early career included roles as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006) and Princeton University (2007-2009) before joining Stanford University in 2009.
At Stanford, Dr. Li became the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) from 2013 to 2018 and later became a founding Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. A significant contribution was her leadership in developing ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a large-scale visual database and benchmarking effort credited with driving advancements in modern AI and deep learning. Her research has spanned AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, robotic learning, and ambient intelligence for healthcare delivery. She has authored over 400 scientific articles and a memoir, “The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI” (2023).
From January 2017 to September 2018, Dr. Li served as Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud, focusing on democratizing AI technologies. She is the co-founder and CEO of World Labs, an AI company dedicated to spatial intelligence and generative AI. Dr. Li is also a co-founder of AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization promoting diversity and inclusion in AI education. She has advised policymakers on AI technologies, including contributing to U.S. Senate and Congressional testimonies and serving as a special advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2023.
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