Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li is a computer scientist whose work in computer vision, machine learning, and AI has helped shape research on how machines interpret visual information. She is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in Stanford University’s Computer Science Department and a founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. (profiles.stanford.edu)

Li earned a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1999 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005. She directed the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018. Her work includes the creation of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a large-scale dataset and benchmark that became central to the development and evaluation of visual-recognition systems. Her memoir, The Worlds I See, brings together her life in science and the emergence of contemporary AI. (profiles.stanford.edu)

Li is also co-founder and CEO of World Labs, where the work centers on spatial intelligence and generative world models. Her honours include the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2025 and the VinFuture Grand Prize in 2024; she is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine. (worldlabs.ai)