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The spring issue of Women of Color magazine recognizes Dr. Fei-Fei Li for her "contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding."
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the computer science department at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
She served as the director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. During her sabbatical from Stanford from January 2017 to September 2018, Li was vice president at Google and served as chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud.
Li’s research interests include cognitively inspired AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, robotic learning, and AI+healthcare, especially ambient intelligent systems for health care delivery.
In the past, she has also worked on cognitive and computational neuroscience.
Li invented ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a critical large-scale dataset that has contributed to the latest developments in deep learning and AI.
In addition, she is a leading expert and national advocate for diversity in STEM and AI. She is also co-founder and chairperson of the nonprofit AI4ALL, aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in AI education.
Li has been working with public policymakers to ensure responsible use of technologies, including giving U.S. Senate and Congressional testimonies, and serves as a special advisor to the secretary general of the United Nations.
She was a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2021–2022.
Li is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
She is the author of the book The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, published by Macmillan Publishers in 2023.
