18 Facts About Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for her pioneering work in artificial intelligence, particularly in computer vision.

Fei-Fei Li establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s.

Fei-Fei Li is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter.

Fei-Fei Li was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

In 2024, Fei-Fei Li, raised $230 million for a startup called World Labs, that she and three colleagues founded to develop a "spatial intelligence" AI technology that can understand how the three-dimensional physical world works.

Fei-Fei Li studied at Sichuan Chengdu No 7 High School.

Fei-Fei Li was inducted to the hall of fame at Parsippany High School in 2017.

Fei-Fei Li received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in physics from Princeton University in 1999.

Fei-Fei Li joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012, and then full professor in 2018.

Fei-Fei Li's research has focused on computer vision, deep learning, and cognitive neuroscience, with over 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Fei-Fei Li became the founding co-director of Stanford's University-level initiative - the Human-Centered AI Institute, along with co-director Dr John Etchemendy, former provost of Stanford University.

Fei-Fei Li has published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers.

Fei-Fei Li was recognized for her work in this area by the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2016.

Fei-Fei Li delivered a talk on the main stage of TED in Vancouver in 2015, and has since then been viewed more than 2 million times.

Fei-Fei Li has worked on improving bias in image recognition, for instance by removing concepts with low imageability from ImageNet.

Fei-Fei Li teaches the Stanford course CS231n on "Deep Learning for Computer Vision," whose 2015 version was previously online at Coursera.

Fei-Fei Li has taught CS131, an introductory class on computer vision.

Fei-Fei Li is among seven external scientists on this board, which includes the Chief Scientists from various UN agencies, the UN University Rector, and the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology.