Fei-Fei Li - From Seeing to Doing: Ascending the Ladder of Visual Intelligence

Biography: Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and a Founding Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. And during her sabbatical from Stanford from January 2017 to September 2018, Dr. Li was Vice President at Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Since then she has served as a Board member or advisor in various public or private companies. She is currently a Co-founder/CEO of World Labs, an AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence and generative AI. Dr. Fei-Fei Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. Her current research interests include AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, robotic learning, and ambient intelligence for healthcare delivery. Dr. Li has been working with policymakers nationally and locally to ensure positive and human-centered progress in AI technologies, including a number of U.S. Senate and Congressional testimonies. 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). (Dr. Li publishes under the name L. Fei-Fei) EECS Colloquium Wednesday April 23, 2025 310 Sutardja Dai Hall (Banatao Auditorium) 4 - 5p