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Fei-Fei Li
Professor, Computer Science
Senior Fellow, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Professor (By courtesy), Operations, Information & Technology
Member, Bio-X
Co-Director, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Ph.D. (Honorary), Yale University, Engineering & Technology (2025)
Ph.D. (Honorary), Harvey Mudd College, Engineering (2022)
PhD, California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering (2005)
Master, California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering (2001)
B.A., Princeton University, Physics (1999)
Affiliation:
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and a Founding Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018.
In industry, Dr. Li has served as a Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud (2017-2018), board member or advisor in various public or private companies (notably Twitter). She is currently a Co-founder/CEO of World Labs, an AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence and generative AI.
Dr. Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She has been recognized as the Distinguished Alumni by both Princeton and Caltech in 2020 and 2024 respectively. Dr. Li also holds Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Yale University and Harvey Mudd College.
Dr. Li is a researcher and technologist in AI, currently focusing on deep learning, robotic learning, spatial intelligence and ambient intelligence for healthcare delivery. In the past she has also worked on cognitive and computational neuroscience. Dr. Li has published more than 400 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences in science, engineering and computer science, and is recognized as one of the most cited computer scientists. She is the inventor of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a critical large-scale dataset and benchmarking effort that has been widely regarded as one of the three driving forces of the birth of modern AI and deep learning revolution. Dr. Li is the author a popular science memoir called “The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI”, published by Macmillan Publishers.
Dr. Li is widely recognized as a pioneer of modern AI. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). She is also a Fellow of ACM, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Among her many recognitions, Dr. Li is a laureate of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025), VinFuture Prize (2024), a recipient of the Intel Lifetime Achievements Award (2023), the IEEE PAMI Thomas Huang Memorial Prize (2022), the IEEE PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize (2019), the National Geographic Society Further Award (2019), the IAPR J.K. Aggarwal Prize (2016), the IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Award (2016), the Alfred Sloan Faculty Award (2011), among others.
Dr. Li is a keynote speaker at many academic or influential conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, the World Economics Forum (Davos), the Grace Hopper Conference, and TED2015 and TED2024. Often called the "Godmother of AI" by the popular press, she has been recognized as Person of the Year by Time Magazine (2025), one of the Time Magazine AI100 influencers in 2023, Women in Tech by the ELLE Magazine (2017), a Global Thinker of 2015 by Foreign Policy, and one of the “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” in 2016 by the Carnegie Foundation, among other distinctions.
Dr. Li works with policymakers nationally and locally to ensure positive and human-centered progress in AI technologies, including a number of U.S. Senate and Congressional testimonies, a special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, a member of the California Future of Work Commission for the Governor of California in 2019 - 2020, and a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force (NAIRR) for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2021-2022. She has delivered numerous speeches including to the President of the United States, the Security Council of the United Nations and other Heads of States internationally.
(Dr. Li publishes under the name L. Fei-Fei)
In industry, Dr. Li has served as a Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud (2017-2018), board member or advisor in various public or private companies (notably Twitter). She is currently a Co-founder/CEO of World Labs, an AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence and generative AI.
Dr. Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She has been recognized as the Distinguished Alumni by both Princeton and Caltech in 2020 and 2024 respectively. Dr. Li also holds Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Yale University and Harvey Mudd College.
Dr. Li is a researcher and technologist in AI, currently focusing on deep learning, robotic learning, spatial intelligence and ambient intelligence for healthcare delivery. In the past she has also worked on cognitive and computational neuroscience. Dr. Li has published more than 400 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences in science, engineering and computer science, and is recognized as one of the most cited computer scientists. She is the inventor of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a critical large-scale dataset and benchmarking effort that has been widely regarded as one of the three driving forces of the birth of modern AI and deep learning revolution. Dr. Li is the author a popular science memoir called “The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI”, published by Macmillan Publishers.
Dr. Li is widely recognized as a pioneer of modern AI. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). She is also a Fellow of ACM, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Among her many recognitions, Dr. Li is a laureate of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025), VinFuture Prize (2024), a recipient of the Intel Lifetime Achievements Award (2023), the IEEE PAMI Thomas Huang Memorial Prize (2022), the IEEE PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize (2019), the National Geographic Society Further Award (2019), the IAPR J.K. Aggarwal Prize (2016), the IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Award (2016), the Alfred Sloan Faculty Award (2011), among others.
Dr. Li is a keynote speaker at many academic or influential conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, the World Economics Forum (Davos), the Grace Hopper Conference, and TED2015 and TED2024. Often called the "Godmother of AI" by the popular press, she has been recognized as Person of the Year by Time Magazine (2025), one of the Time Magazine AI100 influencers in 2023, Women in Tech by the ELLE Magazine (2017), a Global Thinker of 2015 by Foreign Policy, and one of the “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” in 2016 by the Carnegie Foundation, among other distinctions.
Dr. Li works with policymakers nationally and locally to ensure positive and human-centered progress in AI technologies, including a number of U.S. Senate and Congressional testimonies, a special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, a member of the California Future of Work Commission for the Governor of California in 2019 - 2020, and a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force (NAIRR) for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2021-2022. She has delivered numerous speeches including to the President of the United States, the Security Council of the United Nations and other Heads of States internationally.
(Dr. Li publishes under the name L. Fei-Fei)