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Fei-Fei Li

Stanford computer scientist who created ImageNet, the “godmother of AI”

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Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist at Stanford who created ImageNet, the huge labelled image dataset that sparked the deep-learning revolution in computer vision. She co-founded Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and the spatial-intelligence company World Labs.

Biography

Early life

Li grew up in Chengdu and moved to New Jersey at 15, where her family ran a dry-cleaning shop while she studied. She studied physics at Princeton and earned a PhD at Caltech in 2005.

ImageNet

At Princeton and Stanford from 2007 she built ImageNet, eventually more than 14 million images labelled by crowd workers. The ImageNet challenge, won by AlexNet in 2012, showed the power of deep learning.

Human-centred AI

Li was chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud in 2017–2018, co-founded the non-profit AI4ALL and in 2019 co-founded Stanford HAI.

World Labs

In 2024 she co-founded World Labs to build AI that understands 3D worlds. Her memoir The Worlds I See appeared in 2023, and Time named her among the “Architects of AI” in 2025. In September 2026 AMD agreed to buy World Labs for about $8.2 billion.

Timeline

  1. 1976

    Born in Beijing, China

  2. 2005

    PhD from Caltech

  3. 2009

    ImageNet published

  4. 2010

    First ImageNet challenge

  5. 2012

    AlexNet wins ImageNet

  6. 2017

    Chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud

  7. 2019

    Co-founds Stanford HAI

  8. 2023

    The Worlds I See

  9. 2024

    Co-founds World Labs

Notable works

  • 2009

    ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database Paper

  • 2023

    The Worlds I See Memoir

Awards and honours

  • J. K. Aggarwal Prize

    2016

Did you know?

  1. 1

    She worked in her family’s dry-cleaning business through college.

  2. 2

    ImageNet used Amazon Mechanical Turk workers for labelling.

  3. 3

    She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Connections

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Frequently asked

Who is Fei-Fei Li?

Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist at Stanford who created ImageNet, the huge labelled image dataset that sparked the deep-learning revolution in computer vision. She co-founded Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and the spatial-intelligence company World Labs.

How old is Fei-Fei Li?

Fei-Fei Li is 50 years old, born on 3 July 1976 in Beijing, China.

Where is Fei-Fei Li from?

Fei-Fei Li was born in Beijing, China.

What is Fei-Fei Li known for?

Fei-Fei Li is best known for ImageNet; Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute; World Labs; The Worlds I See.

What awards has Fei-Fei Li received?

Notable honours include J. K. Aggarwal Prize (2016).

References

  1. Fei-Fei Li — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
  2. Fei-Fei Li — IMDb. IMDb. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
  3. Fei-Fei Li — Goodreads author page. Goodreads. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
  4. Official website. vision.stanford.edu. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
  5. Fei-Fei Li (Q18686107) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.

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