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Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s. She is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, with research expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and cognitive neuroscience. Li has earned the title of "The Godmoth…
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Born 3 July 1976 · Q18686107
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The Next Web: Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn
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Indiatimes: Who is Fei-Fei Li: The ‘Godmother of AI’ who started with dry-cleaning shop and is now building a $1 billion AI empire
Yahoo Finance: Fei-Fei Li, the 'Godmother of AI' whose startup is now valued at north of $1 billion, got her start as a dry cleaner
Awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025).
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Yahoo Finance: AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns policymakers not to let sci-fi sensationalism shape AI rules
Was named as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year
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Was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, recognizing her role in advancing deep learning
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Observer: ‘Godmother of A.I.’ Fei-Fei Li Has Created a $1B Startup in Less Than 4 Months
While on partial leave from Stanford, Li helped found a startup focused on developing artificial intelligence with "spatial intelligence", a concept involving an AI system's ability to reason about and act within three-d
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Li said there was a disparity between private-sector investment in AI and support for academic and government research, and called for greater public funding for scientific uses of the technology and for studying its ris
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Raised $230 million for a startup called World Labs, which she and three colleagues founded to develop a "spatial intelligence" AI technology that can understand how the three-dimensional physical world works
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Li was included on the Gold House's most influential Asian A100 list
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VentureBeat: Fei-Fei Li and the binders full of women in AI | The AI Beat
Li Fei Fei was announced as a member of the United Nations (UN) Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General António Guterres
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Li was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Li co-led the launch of the RAISE-Health (Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health) initiative at Stanford University in collaboration with Stanford medicine
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Li was named one of the Time 100 AI Most Influential People
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Following Elon Musk's purchase of the company, Li and eight others were removed from Twitter's nine-member board of directors, leaving Musk as the sole director
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Awarded ACM Fellow (2021).
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The National Academy of Engineering in 2020, and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020
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Published “The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews” in BMJ — cited 86,238 times.
Published “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” in The Lancet — cited 36,656 times.
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2019).
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Published “RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials” in BMJ — cited 25,903 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.”
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AI4ALL has successfully launched five more summer programs in addition to Stanford, including Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, Boston University, University of California Berkeley, and Canada's Simon Fra
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Published “MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 33,842 times.
For her contributions to artificial intelligence, and was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine in 2020 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021
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Co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity in the field of artificial intelligence
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Li and her former student Olga Russakovsky, currently an assistant professor in Princeton University, co-founded and co-directed the precursor program at Stanford called SAILORS (Stanford AI Lab OutReach Summers)
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Awarded J. K. Aggarwal Prize (2016).
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Published “A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research” in Journal of Chiropractic Medicine — cited 25,236 times.
And has since then been viewed more than 2 million times
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Till it changed its name to AI4ALL @Stanford in 2017
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Published “Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform” in Bioinformatics — cited 47,773 times.
As an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012, and then full professor in 2018
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Published “ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database” in 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — cited 47,481 times.
Published “The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools” in Bioinformatics — cited 59,426 times.
While at Princeton, Li began developing ImageNet with the goal of building a large-scale visual dataset inspired by an estimate from cognitive psychologist Irving Biederman that humans recognize approximately 30,000 obje
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Li led the development of ImageNet, a massive visual database designed to advance object recognition in AI
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Studied at California Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (2001–2005).
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Studied at California Institute of Technology (2000–2001).
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And a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering in 2005
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Studied at Princeton University, bachelor's degree (1995–1999).
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Born 1976-07-03.
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