Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li
李飞飞
	Li at AI for Good, 2017
Born	July 3, 1976; Beijing, China
Education	Princeton University (BA); California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD);
Known for	Computer vision; Machine learning; Artificial intelligence; AI in healthcare; Cognitive neuroscience; ImageNet;
Spouse	Silvio Savarese
Children	2
Awards	Elected to National Academy of Engineering (2020); National Academy of Medicine (2020); American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021); ACM Fellow (2018); VinFuture Prize (2024); Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025);
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering
Institutions	Stanford University; Google;
Thesis	Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Pietro Perona; Christof Koch;
Doctoral students	Olga Russakovsky; Timnit Gebru; Andrej Karpathy;
Website	profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li

Fei-Fei Li (Chinese: 李飞飞; pinyin: Lǐ Fēifēi; born July 3, 1976) 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 is a co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a co-director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud and the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018. In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity in the field of artificial intelligence. In 2023, Li was named one of the Time 100 AI Most Influential People.

Li received the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in 2017 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. In 2025, she was named as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year.

On August 3, 2023, Li was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In 2024, Li was included on the Gold House's most influential Asian A100 list. In 2024, she 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.