Fei-Fei Li | |
---|---|
Born | 1976 Beijing, China |
Residence | United States |
Alma mater |
Princeton University California Institute of Technology (2005, PhD) |
Known for |
Computer vision Machine learning Artificial intelligence Cognitive neuroscience |
Awards | Sloan Fellowship (2011), IBM Faculty Fellow Award (2014), Yahoo Labs FREP award (2012), NSF CAREER award (2009), Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship (2006) |
Website | vision |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Thesis | Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics (2005) |
Doctoral advisor |
Pietro Perona Christof Koch |
Doctoral students |
Andrej Karpathy Olga Russakovsky Jia Deng Jia Li Juan Carlos Niebles |
Fei-Fei Li (born 1976), who publishes under the name Li Fei-Fei(simplified Chinese: 李飞飞; traditional Chinese: 李飛飛), is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. She is the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) and the Stanford Vision Lab. She works in the areas of computer vision and cognitive neuroscience.
Li obtained her B.S. degree in physics from Princeton University in 1999 with High Honors. Her PhD degree is in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2005. Her graduate studies were supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. From 2005 to August 2009, she was an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Computer Science Department at Princeton University, respectively. She joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012.
Fei-Fei works on computer vision, cognitive neuroscience and computational neuroscience, and Big Data analysis. She has authored more than 100 scientific articles. Her work appears in computer science and neuroscience journals including Nature,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience ,Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Computer Vision, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, European Conference on Computer Vision, International Journal of Computer Vision, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.