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Fei-Fei Li
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Fei-Fei Li

Created ImageNet; the benchmark that started the deep-learning era.

b. 1976United StatesCo-founder, World LabsCo-Director, Stanford HAIProfessor, Stanford University
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Her insistence that data, not just models, was the bottleneck produced ImageNet — and AlexNet's 2012 win on it changed everything. Now co-directs Stanford HAI and builds spatial intelligence at World Labs.

Known for
ImageNetStanford HAI

4 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 2024–now2 yrsWorld LabsCo-founder
  2. 2019–now7 yrsStanford HAICo-Director
  3. 2009–now17 yrsStanford UniversityProfessor
  4. 2017–20181 yrGoogle CloudChief Scientist of AI/ML

1 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

  1. 2023The Worlds I See

LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.

Taughtstudents and postdocs
Andrej KarpathyAndrej KarpathyJim FanTimnit GebruTimnit GebruJustin Johnson

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