Fei-Fei Li
American Computer Scientist

Sequoia Capital Professor, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and Professor, by courtesy, of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business (Stanford University 2022, para. 1)

Why is Fei-Fei Li influential?

  • Li is one of the most influential women in Computer Science from the last 10 years (Academic Influence 2022, para. 8).
  • Li is a prestigious computer scientist, who has always been specializing in research and education on the potential uses of A.I. (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
  • Li's current research interests include cognitively inspired AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and AI healthcare especially ambient intelligent systems for healthcare delivery (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
  • Li has published more than 200 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences (Stanford University 2022, para. 3).
  • Li is best known for her work on Caltech 101 and ImageNet (a visual image network database), which has become a major advance in recognising huge amounts of visual data, attempts to use large numbers of images to allow artificial intelligence computer vision to learn to recognise objects (Stanford University 2022, para. 3).
  • Apart from her technical contributions, Li is a leading advocate for diversity in STEM and A.I.. Li is the co-founder and chair of AI4ALL, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing inclusion and diversity in A.I. education (Stanford University 2022, para. 3).

    • Her Career

    2005
    — Graduated from Caltech with a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2005-2006
    — Served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2007- 2009
    — Served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2009
    — Joined Stanford University as an Assistant Professor (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2012
    — Promoted to tenure-track Associate Professor at Stanford University (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2013-2018
    — Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2017-2018
    — Served as Vice President at Google and as Chief Scientist of Google Cloud AI/ML (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2019
    — Became co-director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University's Human Centre (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2020
    — In February, elected to the National Academy of Engineering; in May, new independent director on the Board of Directors of Twitter Inc; in October, elected to the National Academy of Medicine (Stanford University 2022, para. 2).
    2021
    — Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Stanford University 2022).

    Some of her research projects

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    Figure2: Computational Neuroscience (Yedu 2018)

    Computational Neuroscience: Scene Classification (Li Fei-Fei, D.B. Walther, E. Caddigan, and D.M. Beck. 2009).

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    Figure3: ImageNet Database (Jana 2019)

    ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database (Li Fei-Fei, J. Deng, W. Dong, R. Socher, L.-J. Li, and K. Li. 2009).

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    Figure 4: 3D Object (PIRO4D 2016)

    A Multi-View Probabilistic Model for 3D Object Classes (Li Fei-Fei, M. Sun, H. Su, and S. Savarese. 2009).