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Fei-Fei Li
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American computer scientist
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Fei-Fei Li is a female computer scientist and university teacher born in Beijing in 1976. She holds United States citizenship and works in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computer vision. Her professional affiliations include Stanford University and the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. She has been educated at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University.
Li has received several awards, including the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the ACM Fellow designation, the BBC 100 Women recognition, and the Thousand Talents Program honor. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association for Computing Machinery. Her doctoral advisors were Pietro Perona and Christof Koch, and her doctoral students include Andrej Karpathy and Timnit Gebru.
Her notable works include the Untitled Science/memoir Book on AI : Working, Worlds I See. She maintains an official website at vision.stanford.edu/feifeili and profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li. Li speaks English and has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Untitled Science/memoir Book on AI : Working
- Worlds I See
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Beijing, China
Known for
- TRON: Ares — TED Speaker2025
- What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates — Self - Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI2024
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover — Self2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
Discography
- Everglow / Hangar One2008
- Lysergic Drop2008
- Ender2008
- Heartscape2009
- Daksa2010
- Fire Complex2011
- Hellion2011
- Love Drunk2012
- Flying Daggers2013
- Dab City (ETC!ETC! Remix)2014
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 64
- Total plays
- 107
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fei-Fei+Li">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,436x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,107x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,258x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,665x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,292x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1976-07-03 ) July 3, 1976 (age 49) , 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
- 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)
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Li
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Beijing
- Occupation
- scientist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Christof Koch
- Field of work
- computer vision
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li
- Image
- Fei-Fei Li at AI for Good 2017.jpg
- Work location
- Stanford
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1976-07-03
- social media followers
- 416008
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Fei-Fei Li
- affiliation string
- Stanford University
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- BBC 100 Women Edit-a-thon
- name in native language
- Maria De los Angeles
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
~18 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fei-Fei Li” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.