Fei-Fei Li
Chinese American computer scientist (born 1976) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fei-Fei Li (李飞飞; born 1976) is a China-born American computer scientist, known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s.[4][5][6][7] She is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter.[8] 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.[9][10] She served as the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018.[11][12][13]
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48)[1] |
Nationality | American |
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Fields | Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Computer Vision Neuroscience[2] |
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Thesis | Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics (2005) |
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In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence.[14][15] Her research expertise includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive neuroscience.[16]
Li was named in the Time100 AI Most Influential People list in 2023[17] and received the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in the same year for her contributions to artificial intelligence.[18] She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering[19] and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020,[20] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.[21]
On August 3, 2023, it was announced that Li was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.[22][23] In 2024, Li made to the Gold House’s most impactful Asian A100 list.[24]