Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Dr. Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, a founding co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, and the co-founder and CEO of World Labs, a generative AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence. Dr. Li served as the director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. She was vice president at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud during her sabbatical from Stanford in 2017/2018.
She has served as a board member or advisor in various public and private companies and at the White House and United Nations. Dr. Li earned her BA in physics from Princeton in 1999 and her PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She is the author of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, her memoir and one of Barack Obama’s recommended books on AI and a Financial Times best book of 2023.
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