Fei-Fei Li
Stanford computer scientist who created ImageNet; co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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- Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist, best known for creating ImageNet.
- She is a professor at Stanford and co-directs its Institute for Human-Centered AI.
- She co-founded the spatial-intelligence startup World Labs in 2024.
- In September 2026 AMD announced it would buy World Labs, with Li to become AMD's chief scientist.
Key facts
- Born
- 3 Jul 1976, Beijing1
- Known for
- ImageNet, begun at Princeton in 20071
- Stanford
- Joined in 2009; professor of computer science; co-director of Stanford HAI; directed the Stanford AI Lab 2013 to 20181
- Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud, January 2017 to fall 20181
- World Labs
- Co-founded in 2024; AMD announced its $8.2 billion purchase in September 2026, expected to close by year end1
- Other
- Co-founded AI4ALL (2017); Twitter board, May 2020 to October 20221
- Education
- BA in physics, Princeton (1999); PhD in electrical engineering, Caltech (2005)1
Roles
Before
Part of until 2018
Google (Chief Scientist of AI/ML and vice president at Google Cloud, on sabbatical from Stanford) source on Google
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