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{{Family name hatnote|Lǐ (李)|lang=Chinese}}
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{{Western name order|Lǐ Fēifēi}}
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| birth_place = [[Beijing]], [[China]]
| birth_place = [[Beijing]], [[China]]
| nationality = American
| nationality = American
| fields = [[Artificial Intelligence]]<br>[[Machine Learning]]<br>[[Computer Vision]]<br>[[Neuroscience]]<ref name=gs/>
| fields = [[Electrical engineering]]
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* [[Stanford University]]
* [[Stanford University]]
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* [[Princeton University]] (BA)
* [[Princeton University]] ([[B. A.|BA]])
* [[California Institute of Technology]] (PhD)
* [[California Institute of Technology]] ([[M. S.|MS]], [[PhD]])
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* [[Christof Koch]]
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| thesis_title = Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics
| thesis_title = Visual recognition: computational models and human psychophysics
| thesis_year = 2005
| thesis_year = 2005
| thesis_url = https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2390/
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* [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2021)
* [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2021)
* [[ACM Fellow]] (2018)
* [[ACM Fellow]] (2018)
* [[VinFuture Prize]] (2024)
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'''Fei-Fei Li''' ({{zh|s=李飞飞|p=Lǐ Fēifēi}}; born July 3, 1976) is a Chinese-American [[computer scientist]], known for establishing [[ImageNet]], the dataset that enabled rapid advances in [[computer vision]] in the 2010s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gershgorn |first=Dave |date=July 26, 2017 |title=Investment in the Technology |url=https://hai.stanford.edu/news/godmother-ai-calls-us-moonshot-investment-technology}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hempel |first=Jessi |title=Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/fei-fei-li-artificial-intelligence-humanity/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ImageNet: Where Have We Gone? Where Are We Going? with Fei-Fei Li |url=https://learning.acm.org/pagenotfound |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=learning.acm.org |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaton |first=Florian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1202407378 |title=The constitution of algorithms : ground-truthing, programming, formulating |date=2020 |others=Geoffrey C. Bowker |isbn=978-0-262-36323-5 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=272 |oclc=1202407378}}</ref> She is the [[Sequoia Capital]] professor of computer science at [[Stanford University]] and former board director at [[Twitter]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li |title=Profiles: Fei-Fei Li |website=[[Stanford University]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hai.stanford.edu/leadership |title = Leadership}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://svl.stanford.edu/ | title=Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL)}}</ref> She served as the director of the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] from 2013 to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ai.stanford.edu/ |title=Home |website=Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory}}</ref><ref name=ted>{{TED speaker}}</ref><ref name=cspan>{{C-SPAN|114500}}</ref>
'''Fei-Fei Li''' ({{zh|s=李飞飞|p=Lǐ Fēifēi}}; born July 3, 1976) is a Chinese-American [[computer scientist]] known for establishing [[ImageNet]], the dataset that enabled rapid advances in [[computer vision]] in the 2010s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gershgorn |first=Dave |date=July 26, 2017 |title=Investment in the Technology |url=https://hai.stanford.edu/news/godmother-ai-calls-us-moonshot-investment-technology}}</ref><ref name="wired2018"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=ImageNet: Where Have We Gone? Where Are We Going? with Fei-Fei Li |url=https://learning.acm.org/pagenotfound |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=learning.acm.org |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaton |first=Florian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1202407378 |title=The constitution of algorithms : ground-truthing, programming, formulating |date=2020 |others=Geoffrey C. Bowker |isbn=978-0-262-36323-5 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=272 |oclc=1202407378}}</ref> She is the [[Sequoia Capital]] professor of computer science at [[Stanford University]] and former board director at [[Twitter]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li |title=Profiles: Fei-Fei Li |website=[[Stanford University]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hai.stanford.edu/leadership |title = Leadership}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://svl.stanford.edu/ | title=Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL)}}</ref> She served as the director of the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] from 2013 to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ai.stanford.edu/ |title=Home |website=Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory}}</ref><ref name=ted>{{TED speaker}}</ref><ref name=cspan>{{C-SPAN|114500}}</ref>


In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/05/melinda-gates-and-fei-fei-li-want-to-liberate-ai-from-guys-with-hoodies/|title=Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from "Guys With Hoodies"|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2018-04-16|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ai-4-all.org|title=AI4ALL - Official Website|website=ai-4-all.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-16}}</ref> Her research expertise includes [[artificial intelligence]], [[machine learning]], [[deep learning]], computer vision and [[cognitive neuroscience]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vision.stanford.edu/feifeili/|title=Fei-Fei Li Ph.D. - Professor, Stanford University}}</ref>
In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/05/melinda-gates-and-fei-fei-li-want-to-liberate-ai-from-guys-with-hoodies/|title=Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from "Guys With Hoodies"|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2018-04-16|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ai-4-all.org|title=AI4ALL - Official Website|website=ai-4-all.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-16}}</ref> Her research expertise includes [[artificial intelligence]], [[machine learning]], [[deep learning]], computer vision and [[cognitive neuroscience]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vision.stanford.edu/feifeili/|title=Fei-Fei Li Ph.D. - Professor, Stanford University}}</ref>
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Li was named in the [[Time 100]] AI Most Influential People list in 2023<ref name=":0" /> and received the [[Intel]] Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in the same year for her contributions to artificial intelligence.<ref name=":1" /> She was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]]<ref name=":2" /> and the [[National Academy of Medicine]] in 2020,<ref name=":3" /> and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2021.<ref name=":4" />
Li was named in the [[Time 100]] AI Most Influential People list in 2023<ref name=":0" /> and received the [[Intel]] Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in the same year for her contributions to artificial intelligence.<ref name=":1" /> She was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]]<ref name=":2" /> and the [[National Academy of Medicine]] in 2020,<ref name=":3" /> and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2021.<ref name=":4" />


On August 3, 2023, it was announced that Li was appointed to the [[United Nations]] Scientific Advisory Board, established by [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|Secretary-General]] [[António Guterres|Antonio Guterres]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=UN Secretary-General Creates Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology {{!}} Meetings Coverage and Press Releases |url=https://press.un.org/en/2023/sga2223.doc.htm |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=press.un.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-03 |title=HAI Co-Director Fei-Fei Li Joins UN Secretary-General's Scientific Advisory Board |url=https://hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-co-director-fei-fei-li-joins-un-secretary-generals-scientific-advisory-board |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=hai.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, Li made to the Gold House’s most impactful Asian A100 list.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Jack Dunn,Selena Kuznikov,Jazz Tangcay,Jaden |last2=Dunn |first2=Jack |last3=Kuznikov |first3=Selena |last4=Tangcay |first4=Jazz |last5=Thompson |first5=Jaden |date=2024-05-01 |title=Keanu Reeves, Jung Kook, Hayao Miyazaki Among Gold House's A100 Honorees |url=https://variety.com/lists/gold-house-a100-honoree-list-2024/ |access-date=2024-05-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
On August 3, 2023, it was announced that Li was appointed to the [[United Nations]] Scientific Advisory Board, established by [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|Secretary-General]] [[António Guterres|Antonio Guterres]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=UN Secretary-General Creates Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology {{!}} Meetings Coverage and Press Releases |url=https://press.un.org/en/2023/sga2223.doc.htm |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=press.un.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-03 |title=HAI Co-Director Fei-Fei Li Joins UN Secretary-General's Scientific Advisory Board |url=https://hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-co-director-fei-fei-li-joins-un-secretary-generals-scientific-advisory-board |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=hai.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, Li made to the Gold House’s most impactful Asian A100 list.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Jack Dunn,Selena Kuznikov,Jazz Tangcay,Jaden |last2=Dunn |first2=Jack |last3=Kuznikov |first3=Selena |last4=Tangcay |first4=Jazz |last5=Thompson |first5=Jaden |date=2024-05-01 |title=Keanu Reeves, Jung Kook, Hayao Miyazaki Among Gold House's A100 Honorees |url=https://variety.com/lists/gold-house-a100-honoree-list-2024/ |access-date=2024-05-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-13 |title='AI godmother' Fei-Fei Li raises $230 million to launch AI startup |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-godmother-fei-fei-li-raises-230-million-launch-ai-startup-2024-09-13/|access-date=2024-09-23 |website=reuters.com |language=en}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Li was born in [[Beijing]], China in 1976 and grew up in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cs.stanford.edu/people/feifeili/Bio.htm|title=Li Fei-Fei: Biography; Vision; Princeton|access-date=2024-06-11|language=en-US|website=Computer Science Department, Stanford University}}</ref> She studied at [[Sichuan Chengdu No.7 High School]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=创企涌现、估值暴涨，AI创业大潮正起 - 科技 - 南方财经网 |url=https://www.sfccn.com/2024/9-9/5OMDE0NDlfMTk0OTY5OQ.html |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=www.sfccn.com}}</ref> When she was 12, her father emigrated to [[Parsippany, New Jersey]] from China.<ref name="wired2018" /> When she was 16, she and her mother joined him in the United States.<ref name=":6" /> She graduated from [[Parsippany High School]] in 1995.<ref name="wired2018">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/story/fei-fei-li-artificial-intelligence-humanity/ |title=Fei-Fei Li's Quest To Make Ai Better For Humanity |magazine=Wired |author = Hempel, Jessi|date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=December 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://phs.pthsd.k12.nj.us/UserFiles/Servers/Server_27187/File/docs/PHS%20Hall%20of%20Fame%20Press%20Release%202017.pdf |title=Press release |website=phs.pthsd.k12.nj.us }}</ref> She was inducted to the Hall of Fame of Parsippany High School in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2017/01/parsippany_high_school_to_induct_members_to_hall_o.html |title=Parsippany High School to induct members to hall of fame |date=29 January 2017}}</ref>
Li was born in [[Beijing]], China in 1976 and grew up in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cs.stanford.edu/people/feifeili/Bio.htm|title=Li Fei-Fei: Biography; Vision; Princeton|access-date=2024-06-11|language=en-US|website=Computer Science Department, Stanford University}}</ref> She studied at [[Sichuan Chengdu No.7 High School]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=创企涌现、估值暴涨，AI创业大潮正起 - 科技 - 南方财经网 |url=https://www.sfccn.com/2024/9-9/5OMDE0NDlfMTk0OTY5OQ.html |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=www.sfccn.com}}</ref> When she was 12, her father emigrated to [[Parsippany, New Jersey]] from China.<ref name="wired2018" /> When she was 16, she and her mother joined him in the United States.<ref name=":6" /> She graduated from [[Parsippany High School]] in 1995.<ref name="wired2018">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/story/fei-fei-li-artificial-intelligence-humanity/ |title=Fei-Fei Li's Quest To Make Ai Better For Humanity |magazine=Wired |author = Hempel, Jessi|date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=December 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://phs.pthsd.k12.nj.us/UserFiles/Servers/Server_27187/File/docs/PHS%20Hall%20of%20Fame%20Press%20Release%202017.pdf |title=Press release |website=phs.pthsd.k12.nj.us }}</ref> She was inducted to the hall of fame at Parsippany High School in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2017/01/parsippany_high_school_to_induct_members_to_hall_o.html |title=Parsippany High School to induct members to hall of fame |date=29 January 2017}}</ref>


Li pursue her undergraduate studies at [[Princeton University]]. She received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] with a major in [[physics]] from Princeton University in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/viewCV?facultyId=15052&name=Fei-Fei_Li |title=CV of Fei-Fei Li |website=[[Stanford University]]}}</ref> Li completed her senior thesis, titled "Auditory binaural correlogram difference: a new computational model for huggins dichotic pitch," under the supervision of Bradley Dickinson, professor of electrical engineering.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013x816p82c | title=Auditory Binaural Correlogram Difference: A New Computational Model for Huggins Dichotic Pitch| year=1999| last1=Li| first1=Fei Fei}}</ref> During her years at Princeton, she returned home most weekends to help run the family business<ref name="wired2018" /> and worked as a [[Dishwasher (occupation)|dishwasher]] to supplement the family income.<ref name=":6" />
Li pursued her undergraduate studies at [[Princeton University]]. She received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] with a major in [[physics]] from Princeton University in 1999.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Fei-Fei Li's Profile |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=Stanford Profiles}}</ref> Li completed her senior thesis, titled "Auditory binaural correlogram difference: a new computational model for [[Dichotic pitch|Huggins dichotic pitch]]," under the supervision of Bradley Dickinson, professor of electrical engineering.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013x816p82c | title=Auditory Binaural Correlogram Difference: A New Computational Model for Huggins Dichotic Pitch| year=1999| last1=Li| first1=Fei Fei}}</ref> During her years at Princeton, she returned home most weekends to help run her family's [[dry cleaning]] business<ref name="wired2018" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Blanco |first=Octavio |date=2016-07-21 |title=One immigrant's path from cleaning houses to Stanford professor |url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/news/economy/chinese-immigrant-stanford-professor/index.html |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=CNNMoney}}</ref> and worked as a [[Dishwasher (occupation)|dishwasher]] to supplement the family income.<ref name=":6" />


Li then pursued graduate studies at the [[California Institute of Technology]], where she received a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in [[electrical engineering]] in 2005. Li completed her dissertation, titled "Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics," under the primary supervision of [[Pietro Perona]] and secondary supervision of [[Christof Koch]]. Her graduate studies were supported by the [[National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship]] and [[The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/fei-fei-li|title=Meet the Fellows &#124; Fei-Fei Li|website=www.pdsoros.org}}</ref>
Li then pursued her graduate studies at the [[California Institute of Technology]], where she received a [[master's degree]] in electrical engineering in 2001 and a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in electrical engineering in 2005.<ref name=":7" /> Li completed her dissertation, titled "Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics," under the primary supervision of [[Pietro Perona]] and secondary supervision of [[Christof Koch]]. Her graduate studies were supported by the [[National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship]] and [[The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/fei-fei-li|title=Meet the Fellows &#124; Fei-Fei Li|website=www.pdsoros.org}}</ref>


== Career and research==
== Career and research==
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=== Selected honors and awards ===
=== Selected honors and awards ===
*1999 [[The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans|Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/fei-fei-li|title=Meet the Fellows {{!}} Fei-Fei Li|website=www.pdsoros.org|language=en|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*1999 [[The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans|Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/fei-fei-li|title=Meet the Fellows {{!}} Fei-Fei Li|website=www.pdsoros.org|language=en|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2006 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2006/04/26/microsoft-research-recognizes-computer-sciences-most-promising-professors-with-new-faculty-fellowships/|title=Microsoft Research Recognizes Computer Science's Most Promising Professors With New Faculty Fellowships|date=2006-04-26|website=Stories|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2006 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2006/04/26/microsoft-research-recognizes-computer-sciences-most-promising-professors-with-new-faculty-fellowships/|title=Microsoft Research Recognizes Computer Science's Most Promising Professors With New Faculty Fellowships|date=2006-04-26|website=Stories|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2009 NSF CAREER Award <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845230|title=NSF Award Search: Award#0845230 - CAREER: Telling the Story of a Visual World: Event Classification and Integrated Image Understanding|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2009 NSF CAREER Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845230|title=NSF Award Search: Award#0845230 - CAREER: Telling the Story of a Visual World: Event Classification and Integrated Image Understanding|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2010 Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tab.computer.org/pamitc/archive/cvpr2010/index.html|title=CVPR 2010: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition|website=tab.computer.org|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2010 Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tab.computer.org/pamitc/archive/cvpr2010/index.html|title=CVPR 2010: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition|website=tab.computer.org|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2011 Fellow, [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=sloan.org|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-date=March 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2011 Fellow, [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=sloan.org|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-date=March 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2015 One of the Leading Global Thinkers of 2015, Foreign Policy <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2015globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/|title=The Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 - Foreign Policy|website=2015globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2015 One of the Leading Global Thinkers of 2015, Foreign Policy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2015globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/|title=The Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 - Foreign Policy|website=2015globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
* 2016 IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Prize [reference link]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/web/tcpami/mark-everingham-prize|title=Mark Everingham Prize • IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227085306/https://www.computer.org/web/tcpami/mark-everingham-prize|archive-date=2018-12-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2016 IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Prize [reference link]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/web/tcpami/mark-everingham-prize|title=Mark Everingham Prize • IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227085306/https://www.computer.org/web/tcpami/mark-everingham-prize|archive-date=2018-12-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2016 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) <ref name="IAPR - IAPR Awards"/>
*2016 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)<ref name="IAPR - IAPR Awards"/>
* 2016 One of the 40 “The great immigrants,” Carnegie Foundation <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/great-immigrants/2016-great-immigrants/|title=2016 Great Immigrants|first=Carnegie Corporation of New|last=York|website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/news/economy/chinese-immigrant-stanford-professor/index.html|title=One immigrant's path from cleaning houses to Stanford professor|last=Blanco|first=Octavio|date=2016-07-21|website=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
* 2016 One of the 40 “The great immigrants,” Carnegie Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/great-immigrants/2016-great-immigrants/|title=2016 Great Immigrants|first=Carnegie Corporation of New|last=York|website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/news/economy/chinese-immigrant-stanford-professor/index.html|title=One immigrant's path from cleaning houses to Stanford professor|last=Blanco|first=Octavio|date=2016-07-21|website=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
* 2017 WITI@UC Athena Award for Academic Leadership, University of California <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://citris-uc.org/announcing-2017-witiuc-athena-awards/|title=Athena Awards cap Women in Tech symposium|date=2017-11-07|website=CITRIS and the Banatao Institute|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
* 2017 WITI@UC Athena Award for Academic Leadership, University of California<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://citris-uc.org/announcing-2017-witiuc-athena-awards/|title=Athena Awards cap Women in Tech symposium|date=2017-11-07|website=CITRIS and the Banatao Institute|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2017 One of Seven Women in Technology honorees, Elle Magazine <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/tech/a46301/elle-women-in-tech-2017/|title=ELLE's 2017 Women in Tech: Star Tech Voyagers|last=Langmuir|first=Molly|date=2017-07-12|website=ELLE|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
*2017 One of Seven Women in Technology honorees, Elle Magazine<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/tech/a46301/elle-women-in-tech-2017/|title=ELLE's 2017 Women in Tech: Star Tech Voyagers|last=Langmuir|first=Molly|date=2017-07-12|website=ELLE|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
* 2018 Elected as [[ACM Fellow]] for "contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding"<ref>{{citation|title=2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age|date=December 5, 2018|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2018/december/fellows-2018|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]}}</ref>
* 2018 Elected as [[ACM Fellow]] for "contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding"<ref>{{citation|title=2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age|date=December 5, 2018|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2018/december/fellows-2018|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]}}</ref>
* 2018 "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by [[Forbes]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/fei-fei-li/?list=top-tech-women-america |title=Fei-Fei Li |magazine=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>
* 2018 "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by [[Forbes]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/fei-fei-li/?list=top-tech-women-america |title=Fei-Fei Li |magazine=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>
*2018 U.S. Congressional hearing by Subcommittee on Research and Technology & Subcommittee on Energy <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-research-and-technology-and-subcommittee-energy-hearing-artificial|title=Subcommittee on Research and Technology and Subcommittee on Energy Hearing - Artificial Intelligence – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility|date=2018-06-26|website=Committee on Science, Space, and Technology|language=en|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227084946/https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-research-and-technology-and-subcommittee-energy-hearing-artificial|archive-date=2018-12-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2018 U.S. Congressional hearing by Subcommittee on Research and Technology & Subcommittee on Energy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-research-and-technology-and-subcommittee-energy-hearing-artificial|title=Subcommittee on Research and Technology and Subcommittee on Energy Hearing - Artificial Intelligence – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility|date=2018-06-26|website=Committee on Science, Space, and Technology|language=en|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227084946/https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-research-and-technology-and-subcommittee-energy-hearing-artificial|archive-date=2018-12-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2019 Technical Leadership Abie Award Winner, AnitaB.org<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anitab.org/profiles/abie-award-winners/technical-leadership/fei-fei-li/|title=Dr. Fei-Fei Li|date=2019-06-12|website=AnitaB.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref>
*2019 Technical Leadership Abie Award Winner, AnitaB.org<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anitab.org/profiles/abie-award-winners/technical-leadership/fei-fei-li/|title=Dr. Fei-Fei Li|date=2019-06-12|website=AnitaB.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref>
*2019 She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-10-15 |title=BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year? |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50042279 |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref>
*2019 She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-10-15 |title=BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year? |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50042279 |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref>
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*2020 Elected member of the [[National Academy of Medicine]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Member|url=https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/10/five-professors-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine.html|access-date=2021-04-24|website=National Academy of Medicine|date=November 18, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*2020 Elected member of the [[National Academy of Medicine]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Member|url=https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/10/five-professors-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine.html|access-date=2021-04-24|website=National Academy of Medicine|date=November 18, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner of [[California Institute of Technology]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=winner|url=https://proberlab.caltech.edu/news/caltech-announces-2020-distinguished-alumni-award-winners|access-date=2021-04-24|website=Caltech|language=en}}</ref>
*2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner of [[California Institute of Technology]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=winner|url=https://proberlab.caltech.edu/news/caltech-announces-2020-distinguished-alumni-award-winners|access-date=2021-04-24|website=Caltech|language=en}}</ref>
*2020 Member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] (CFR) <ref>{{Cite web|title=Member|url=https://www.cfr.org/event/future-ai-ethics-and-defense|access-date=2021-04-24|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en}}</ref>
*2020 Member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] (CFR)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Member|url=https://www.cfr.org/event/future-ai-ethics-and-defense|access-date=2021-04-24|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en}}</ref>
*2021 Elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=New Members|url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021|access-date=2021-04-24|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref>
*2021 Elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=New Members|url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021|access-date=2021-04-24|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref>
*2022 Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation |url=https://www.thecvf.com/?page_id=413#Huang |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=www.thecvf.com}}</ref> IEEE PAMI
*2022 Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize, IEEE PAMI<ref>{{Cite web |title=Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation |url=https://www.thecvf.com/?page_id=413#Huang |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=www.thecvf.com}}</ref>
*2023 [[Intel]] Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Intel Innovation 2023 |url=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/resources/intel-innovation-2023.html |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=Intel |language=en}}</ref>
*2023 [[Intel]] Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Intel Innovation 2023 |url=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/resources/intel-innovation-2023.html |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=Intel |language=en}}</ref>
*2023 [[Time 100|Time]] AI100<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |date=2023-09-07 |title=TIME100 AI 2023: Fei-Fei Li |url=https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308945/fei-fei-li/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref>
*2023 [[Time 100|Time]] AI100<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |date=2023-09-07 |title=TIME100 AI 2023: Fei-Fei Li |url=https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308945/fei-fei-li/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref>
*2024 Woodrow Wilson Award,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Computer scientist Fei-Fei Li '99 and ornithologist John Fitzpatrick *78 to receive top awards on Alumni Day {{!}} Princeton Alumni |url=https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/alumni-day-2024-fei-fei-li-john-fitzpatrick |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=alumni.princeton.edu |language=en}}</ref> [[Princeton University|Princeton]]
*2024 Woodrow Wilson Award, [[Princeton University|Princeton]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Computer scientist Fei-Fei Li '99 and ornithologist John Fitzpatrick *78 to receive top awards on Alumni Day {{!}} Princeton Alumni |url=https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/alumni-day-2024-fei-fei-li-john-fitzpatrick |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=alumni.princeton.edu |language=en}}</ref>
*2024 [[VinFuture Prize]]'s grand prize<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 7, 2024 |title=The VinFuture 2024 Grand Prize honours 5 scientists for transformational contributions to the advancement of deep learning |url=https://vietnamnews.vn/Society/1688552/the-vinfuture-2024-grand-prize-honours-5-scientists-for-transformational-contributions-to-the-advancement-of-deep-learning.html |website=[[Việt Nam News]]}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Li is married to Stanford professor Silvio Savarese. They have a son and a daughter.<ref name="wired2018" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hammond |first=George |date=2023-12-15 |title=AI scientist Fei-Fei Li: ‘Maths is pretty clean. Humans are messy’ |url=https://www.ft.com/content/d5f91c27-3be8-454a-bea5-bb8ff2a85488 |access-date= |work=Financial Times}}</ref>

==Publications==


===Books===
===Books===
Li contributed one chapter to ''Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it'' (2018) by the American futurist [[Martin Ford (author)|Martin Ford]].<ref name="RR1">{{cite news |url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamfalcon/2018/11/30/this-is-the-future-of-ai-according-to-23-world-leading-ai-experts/#60939b2b62f2 |title = This Is The Future Of AI According To 23 World-Leading AI Experts|last=Falcon|first=William |date=November 30, 2018|website=Forbes |access-date=March 20, 2019 }}</ref> In 2023, Li wrote and published a memoir, ''The Worlds I See'', which explores her life path and the state of artificial intelligence.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thornhill |first=John |date=2023-11-01 |title=The Worlds I See — keeping the human at the heart of AI |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/de3f4813-4f36-40c7-9d50-980144674d87 |access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kent |first1=Jo Ling |last2=Breen |first2=Kerry |date=2023-11-08 |title="Godmother of A.I." Fei-Fei Li on technology development: "The power lies within people" - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/godmother-of-a-i-on-technology-development-fei-fei-li/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Ford |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Ford (author) |chapter=Fei-Fei Li |title=Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it |publisher=Packt Publishing |publication-place=Birmingham, UK |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-78913-126-0 |oclc=1083340727 |pages=145–162}} Interview of Li by Ford.<ref name="RR1">{{cite news |url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamfalcon/2018/11/30/this-is-the-future-of-ai-according-to-23-world-leading-ai-experts/#60939b2b62f2 |title = This Is The Future Of AI According To 23 World-Leading AI Experts|last=Falcon|first=William |date=November 30, 2018|website=Forbes |access-date=March 20, 2019 }}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Li |first=Fei Fei |title=The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at ahe Dawn Of Ai |publisher=Moment of Lift Books, Flatiron Books |publication-place=New York, NY |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-250-89794-7 |oclc=1404458360}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thornhill |first=John |date=2023-11-01 |title=The Worlds I See — keeping the human at the heart of AI |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/de3f4813-4f36-40c7-9d50-980144674d87 |access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kent |first1=Jo Ling |last2=Breen |first2=Kerry |date=2023-11-08 |title="Godmother of A.I." Fei-Fei Li on technology development: "The power lies within people" - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/godmother-of-a-i-on-technology-development-fei-fei-li/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Selected articles===

* {{cite journal |last=Li |first=Fei Fei |last2=VanRullen |first2=Rufin |last3=Koch |first3=Christof |last4=Perona |first4=Pietro |title=Rapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=99 |issue=14 |date=2002-07-09 |issn=0027-8424 |pmid=12077298 |pmc=123186 |doi=10.1073/pnas.092277599 |doi-access=free |pages=9596–9601}}
* {{cite conference <!-- Citation bot bypass--> |author=Li Fe-Fei |author2=Fergus |author3=Perona |title=Proceedings Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision |url=https://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/triggs/events/iccv03/cdrom/iccv03/1134_fei-fei.pdf|publisher=IEEE |date=2003 |doi=10.1109/iccv.2003.1238476}}
* {{cite conference |author=Li Fei-Fei |last2=Fergus |first2=R. |last3=Perona |first3=P. |title=Learning Generative Visual Models from Few Training Examples: An Incremental Bayesian Approach Tested on 101 Object Categories |publisher=IEEE |date=2004 |doi=10.1109/CVPR.2004.383}}
* {{cite conference <!-- Citation bot bypass--> |author=Fei-Fei Li |last2=Perona |first2=P. |title=A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Learning Natural Scene Categories |url=https://wayback.stanford.edu/was/20180311070624mp_/http://vision.stanford.edu/documents/Fei-FeiPerona2005.pdf |publisher=IEEE |volume=2 |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-7695-2372-9 |doi=10.1109/CVPR.2005.16}}
* {{cite journal |author=Li Fei-Fei |last2=Fergus |first2=R. |last3=Perona |first3=P. |title=One-shot learning of object categories |journal=IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |volume=28 |issue=4 |date=2006 |issn=0162-8828 |doi=10.1109/TPAMI.2006.79 |pages=594–611}} Presented as {{Free access}} [https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/w~daphna/course/student%20lectures/cobi%20cario.pdf slides].
* {{cite journal |last=Fei-Fei |first=Li |last2=Iyer |first2=Asha |last3=Koch |first3=Christof |last4=Perona |first4=Pietro |title=What do we perceive in a glance of a real-world scene? |journal=Journal of Vision |volume=7 |issue=1 |date=2007-01-31 |issn=1534-7362 |doi=10.1167/7.1.10 |doi-access=free |page=10}}


==References==
==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{cite web |last=Lee |first=Timothy B. |title=How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom |website=Ars Technica |date=2024-11-11 |url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/ |access-date=2024-11-16}}


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In this Chinese name, the family name is Lǐ (李).
The native form of this personal name is Lǐ Fēifēi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
"Li Feifei" redirects here. For the 1925 film, see Heroine Li Feifei.

Fei-Fei Li
李飞飞
Li at AI for Good in 2017
Born (1976-07-03) July 3, 1976 (age 48)[2]
Beijing, China
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Institutions
ThesisVisual recognition: computational models and human psychophysics (2005)
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Fei-Fei Li (Chinese: 李飞飞; pinyin: Lǐ Fēifēi; born July 3, 1976) is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s.[3][4][5][6] She is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter.[7] 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.[8][9] She served as the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018.[10][11][12]

In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence.[13][14] Her research expertise includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive neuroscience.[15]

Li was named in the Time 100 AI Most Influential People list in 2023[16] and received the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in the same year for her contributions to artificial intelligence.[17] She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering[18] and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020,[19] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.[20]

On August 3, 2023, it was announced that Li was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.[21][22] In 2024, Li made to the Gold House’s most impactful Asian A100 list.[23] 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.[24]

Early life and education

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Li was born in Beijing, China in 1976 and grew up in Chengdu, Sichuan.[25] She studied at Sichuan Chengdu No.7 High School.[26] When she was 12, her father emigrated to Parsippany, New Jersey from China.[4] When she was 16, she and her mother joined him in the United States.[26] She graduated from Parsippany High School in 1995.[4][27] She was inducted to the hall of fame at Parsippany High School in 2017.[28]

Li pursued her undergraduate studies at Princeton University. She received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in physics from Princeton University in 1999.[29] Li completed her senior thesis, titled "Auditory binaural correlogram difference: a new computational model for Huggins dichotic pitch," under the supervision of Bradley Dickinson, professor of electrical engineering.[30] During her years at Princeton, she returned home most weekends to help run her family's dry cleaning business[4][31] and worked as a dishwasher to supplement the family income.[26]

Li then pursued her graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, where she received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 2001 and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering in 2005.[29] Li completed her dissertation, titled "Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics," under the primary supervision of Pietro Perona and secondary supervision of Christof Koch. Her graduate studies were supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.[32]

Career and research

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From 2005 to 2006, Li was an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and from 2007 to 2009, she was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. She joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012, and then full professor in 2018.[33] At Stanford, Li served as the director of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) from 2013 to 2018. She 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.[34]

On her sabbatical from Stanford University from January 2017 to fall of 2018, Li joined Google Cloud as its Chief Scientist of AI/ML and Vice President.[35] At Google, her team focused on democratizing AI technology and lowering the barrier for entrance to businesses and developers,[36] including the developments of products like AutoML.[37][38]

In September 2017, Google secured a contract from the Department of Defense called Project Maven, which aimed to use AI techniques to interpret images captured by drone cameras.[39][40] Google told employees who protested the company's work on Project Maven that their role was "specifically scoped to be for non-offensive purposes."[41] In June 2018, Google told employees it would not seek renewal of the contract.[40] In internal emails which were later leaked to reporters, Li expressed enthusiasm for the Google Cloud role in Project Maven, but warned against mentioning its AI component, saying that military AI is linked in the public mind with the danger of autonomous weapons. Asked about those leaked emails, Li told The New York Times, "I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways. It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI."[42]

In the fall of 2018, Li left Google and returned to Stanford University to continue her professorship.[43]

Li is also known for her non-profit work as the co-founder and chairperson of nonprofit organization AI4ALL, whose mission is to educate the next generation of AI technologists, thinkers and leaders by promoting diversity and inclusion through human-centered AI principles.[44][45][46][47][48] The program was created in collaboration with Melinda French Gates and Jensen Huang.[49][50]

Prior to establishing AI4ALL in 2017, Li and her former student Olga Russakovsky,[51] currently an assistant professor in Princeton University, co-founded and co-directed the precursor program at Stanford called SAILORS (Stanford AI Lab OutReach Summers).[52][53] SAILORS was an annual summer camp at Stanford dedicated to 9th grade high school girls in AI education and research, established in 2015 till it changed its name to AI4ALL @Stanford in 2017.[53] In 2018, AI4ALL has successfully launched five more summer programs in addition to Stanford, including Princeton University,[54] Carnegie Mellon University,[55] Boston University,[56] University of California Berkeley,[57] and Canada's Simon Fraser University.[58]

We are at a turning point. AI’s influence continues to grow, but representation and inclusion of a diversity of researchers in the field does not. It’s critical that we seize this moment to create structures that will support long-term, positive changes. This won’t happen via a single mechanism or quick fix. It starts with early education and extends to the existing structures of power within academia, work cultures among current AI researchers, and gatekeeping functions of research publishing, to name a few levers of change.

— Fei-Fei Li and Tess Posner, Nature[59]

Li has been described as a "researcher bringing humanity to AI."[60]

Li was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021,[61] the National Academy of Engineering in 2020,[62] and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.[63]

Research

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Li works on artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, cognitive neuroscience, and computational neuroscience. She has published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers.[64] Her work appears in computer science and neuroscience journals including Nature,[65] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,[66] Journal of Neuroscience,[67] Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Computer Vision, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, European Conference on Computer Vision, International Journal of Computer Vision, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.[68] Among her best-known work is the ImageNet project, which has revolutionized the field of large-scale visual recognition.[2][69][70][71][72]

Li has led the team of students and collaborators to organize the international competition on ImageNet recognition tasks called ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) between 2010 and 2017 in the academic community.[73]

Li's research in computer vision contributed to a line of work called Natural Scene Understanding, or later, story-telling of images.[74] She was recognized for her work in this area by the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2016.[75] She delivered a talk on the main stage of TED in Vancouver in 2015, and has since then been viewed more than 2 million times.[75]

In recent years, Fei-Fei Li's research work expanded to artificial intelligence in healthcare, collaborating closely with Stanford University School of Medicine professor Arnold Milstein.[76] She has also worked on improving bias in image recognition, for instance by removing concepts with low imageability from ImageNet.[77]

Teaching

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She teaches the Stanford course CS231n on "Deep Learning for Computer Vision,"[78] whose 2015 version was previously online at Coursera.[79] She has also taught CS131, an introductory class on computer vision.[80]

Board roles

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In May 2020, Li joined the board of directors of Twitter as an independent director.[81] On October 27, 2022, following Elon Musk’s purchase of the company, Li and eight others were removed from Twitter's nine-member board of directors, leaving Elon as the sole director.[82][83]

On 3 August 2023, Li Fei Fei was announced as a member of the United Nations (UN) Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General António Guterres. She is among seven external scientists on this board, which also includes the Chief Scientists from various UN agencies, the UN University Rector, and the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology. The board's primary aim is to offer independent perspectives on emerging trends that intersect science, technology, ethics, governance, and sustainable development. It is designed to act as a central hub for a network of scientific networks, enhancing the integration of scientific insights into UN decision-making processes.[21][84]

Selected honors and awards

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Personal life

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Li is married to Stanford professor Silvio Savarese. They have a son and a daughter.[4][106]

Publications

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Books

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  • Ford, Martin (2018). "Fei-Fei Li". Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing. pp. 145–162. ISBN 978-1-78913-126-0. OCLC 1083340727. Interview of Li by Ford.[107]
  • Li, Fei Fei (2023). The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at ahe Dawn Of Ai. New York, NY: Moment of Lift Books, Flatiron Books. ISBN 978-1-250-89794-7. OCLC 1404458360.[108][109]

Selected articles

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References

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  1. ^ Karpathy, Andrej (2016). Connecting Images and Natural Language. stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
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