The Worlds I See

Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field. But her career in science was improbable from the start. As immigrants, her family faced a difficult transition from China's middle class to American poverty. And their lives were made all the harder as they struggled to care for her ailing mother, who was working tirelessly to help them all gain a foothold in their new land.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, and Co-Director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute. She was VP at Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. She is co-founder the non-profit AI4ALL, which works to promote AI education among students from all walks of life. Dr. Li has served as a keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum and at TED. She received the 2025 Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for her pioneering contributions to fundamental AI research and her efforts to promote a human-centered approach to technology. Work from her lab has been featured in the NYT, WSJ, Financial Times and more. She lives in San Francisco.