STEM Spotlight: Fei-Fei Li

Throughout the month of March, we are highlighting women in STEM who are making history.  Today, meet the godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li.

Fei-Fei Li speaking at AI for Good 2017

Fei-Fei Li is a computer scientist known for establishing ImageNet, a large visual database used in visual object recognition software.  Li created ImageNet in the 2010s to improve the data available to train AI algorithms.  ImageNet uses more than 14 million images to advance computer vision and deep learning programs.

Li is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter.  In 2017, she co-founded the non-profit AI4ALL, which works to promote diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence.

Li is a member of the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board.  In recent years, her research work has expanded to include artificial intelligence in healthcare.