13 Facts About Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li is an American computer scientist who is known for 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 served as the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018.

Fei-Fei Li is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Fei-Fei Li graduated from Parsippany High School in 1995, where she was inducted to the Hall of Fame of Parsippany High School in 2017.

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 2017.

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 is a 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 "Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition", whose 2015 version was previously online at Coursera.

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