Fei-Fei Li

Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and cognitive neuroscience.

Li served as director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018 and as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. She is a co-director of both the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit working to increase diversity in the field of artificial intelligence.

Her honors include the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in 2017, election to the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. She was named one of Time's 100 AI Most Influential People in 2023 and recognized as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year in 2025. In 2023, she was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board. In 2024, she raised $230 million for World Labs, a startup she co-founded to develop "spatial intelligence" AI technology aimed at understanding how the three-dimensional physical world works.