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Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li portrait

Co-founder and CEO at World LabsProfessor at Stanford UniversityFounder at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese-American

Li created ImageNet, a large labelled image collection whose competition gave researchers a common test for visual recognition and helped reveal the power of deep learning. Her later work advances human-centred AI and spatial intelligence: systems designed to understand and interact with the three-dimensional world.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder and CEO 2023-present
Professor 2009-present
Previously
2017-2018VP, Chief Scientist of AI/ML,
2006-2009Assistant Professor,
Born1976
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26371,472342,356313,239Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
371,472citations as of Sep 1, '26+9,716 since Aug 1, '26
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