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Co-founder and CEO, World Labs; Sequoia Professor, Stanford
Fei-Fei Li works across computer vision, human-centered AI, and spatial intelligence. She helped establish ImageNet as a foundation for visual recognition research, led Stanford’s AI Lab, and co-founded Stanford HAI. She now leads World Labs alongside her Stanford role. Her work links the ability to perceive and model the physical world with questions about how AI should serve people.
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Fei-Fei Li works across computer vision, human-centered AI, and spatial intelligence. She helped establish ImageNet as a foundation for visual recognition research, led Stanford’s AI Lab, and co-founded Stanford HAI. She now leads World Labs alongside her Stanford role. Her work links the ability to perceive and model the physical world with questions about how AI should serve people.
- Organizations
- World Labs; Stanford University
- Research
- Computer vision; spatial intelligence
- Education
- Princeton BA; Caltech PhD
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Career, in context.
Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
World Labs signs AMD agreement
World Labs announced an agreement to join AMD. Li’s proposed executive vice president and chief scientist appointment depends on a transaction expected to close by year-end.
Source: World Labs ↗World Labs releases Marble
World Labs made Marble generally available for creating and editing 3D worlds from multimodal inputs, adding export options for use in other creative and technical workflows.
Source: World Labs ↗Co-founds World Labs
Li co-founded World Labs to pursue spatial intelligence. The company’s subsequent work centers on models that generate and represent three-dimensional environments for people and machines.
Source: World Labs ↗Co-leads Stanford HAI launch
Stanford launched its Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence with Li and John Etchemendy as co-directors, bringing technical research together with education, policy, and other disciplines.
Source: Stanford University ↗Leads AI research at Google Cloud
Li became a vice president at Google and chief scientist of AI and machine learning at Google Cloud, a role she held during 2017–2018.
Source: Stanford University ↗Directs Stanford AI Lab
Li began her tenure as director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, leading the laboratory from 2013 to 2018 alongside her computer vision research.
Source: Stanford University ↗Helps introduce ImageNet
Li and collaborators published ImageNet, a large hierarchical image database designed to support visual recognition research through broader category coverage and large-scale annotated examples.
Source: CVPR paper / ImageNet ↗Earns Caltech doctorate
Li received a PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, following undergraduate physics studies and beginning a career in vision and artificial intelligence.
Source: Stanford University ↗Graduates from Princeton
Li earned a bachelor’s degree in physics with high honors from Princeton University, before pursuing graduate research in electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
Source: Stanford University ↗
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- Language is described as a generated signal, indicating that the input data leads to predictable outputs that generalize the same information.
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