Fei-Fei Li is a Scientific Partner with Radical Ventures, a role she took on in February 2023 alongside her Stanford professorship. Stanford lists her as the Sequoia Capital Professor in the Computer Science Department and a founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and she directed the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab from 2013 to 2018. She was a vice president at Google and chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud from 2017 to 2018, and she is the creator of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge as well as co-founder and chairperson of the non-profit AI4ALL. She is currently co-founder and chief executive officer of World Labs, and holds a B.A. in physics from Princeton University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Education
B.A. Physics, Princeton University
M.S. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Previous Experience
Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (2013 to 2018)
Vice President, Google, and Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Google Cloud (2017 to 2018)
Co-founder and chairperson, AI4ALL
Founding Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, World Labs
Career Timeline
2009
Joined the Stanford University faculty.
2013
Became Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, a post she held until 2018.
2017
Served as a vice president at Google and chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud until 2018.
2023
Joined Radical Ventures as a Scientific Partner in February while continuing full-time at Stanford.
2024
Co-founded World Labs, a spatial intelligence and generative AI company, where she is chief executive officer.