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 Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. During a sabbatical from Stanford from January 2017 to September 2018, she was Vice President at Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Dr. Li earned a BA degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and a PhD in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor. Prior to that, she was on the faculty at Princeton University (2007-2009) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006).

Dr. Li’s primary research areas are machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and cognitive and computational neuroscience. She has published nearly 200 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences. Dr. Li is the lead inventor of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a large-scale dataset and benchmarking effort. She is the co-founder and chairperson of the national non-profit AI4ALL, which aims to increase inclusion and diversity in AI education.