Fei-Fei Li

California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) Elected to National Academy of Engineering (2020) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025) Fei-Fei Li (Chinese: 李飞飞; pinyin: Lǐ Fēifēi; born July 3, 1976)[2] is a Chinese-born American computer scientist best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s.[3][4][5][6][7] She is a professor of computer science at Stanford University,[8] with research expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and cognitive neuroscience.[9] Li has earned the title of "The Godmother of AI".[10][11][12]