Dr. Fei-Fei Li – CCSS Annual Lecture
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. From January 2017 to September 2018, she was Vice President at Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Dr. Fei-Fei Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005.
Dr. Li’s current research interests include cognitively inspired AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and AI+healthcare, especially ambient intelligent systems for healthcare delivery. She has also worked on cognitive and computational neuroscience. Dr. Li has published over 200 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences and is the inventor of ImageNet and ImageNet Challenge, a critical large-scale dataset and benchmarking effort that has contributed to the latest developments in deep learning and AI. A leading national voice for advocating diversity in STEM and AI, she is co-founder and chairperson of the national non-profit AI4ALL, aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in AI education. Dr. Li is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
Co-sponsored by the Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and the Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society Data Science Distinguished Lecture Series.
For more on Dr. Li, visit her website here.
