1976–, Computer scientist
Also known as: Li Fei-Fei
Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-American computer scientist who, while at Princeton from 2007, conceived and led the construction of ImageNet , the 14-million-image, 21,841-category dataset that became the standard benchmark for computer vision and the training set on which deep convolutional networks first decisively defeated traditional methods. The 2009 CVPR paper ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database introduced the dataset; the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) organised an annual competition from 2010 to 2017.
The 2012 ILSVRC, won by AlexNet (Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton) with a top-5 error of 15.3% versus the second-place 26.2%, is generally taken as the moment the deep-learning era began. Without ImageNet, without a dataset of sufficient scale to enable the GPU-trained CNN that AlexNet was, the AlexNet result would not have been possible.
Li moved to Stanford in 2009, where she directs the Stanford AI Lab. She founded AI4ALL, a non-profit promoting diversity in AI, served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud (2017–2018), and is now co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred AI (HAI). Her 2023 memoir The Worlds I See gives a personal account of her path from Sichuan to Stanford.
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Related people: Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey Hinton
Works cited in this book:
- On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (2021) (with Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, Russ Altman, Simran Arora, Sydney von Arx, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeannette Bohg, Antoine Bosselut, Emma Brunskill, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shyamal Buch, Dallas Card, Rodrigo Castellon, Niladri Chatterji, Annie Chen, Kathleen Creel, Jared Quincy Davis, Dora Demszky, Chris Donahue, Moussa Doumbouya, Esin Durmus, Stefano Ermon, John Etchemendy, Kawin Ethayarajh, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Gale, Lauren Gillespie, Karan Goel, Noah Goodman, Shelby Grossman, Neel Guha, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Peter Henderson, John Hewitt, Daniel E. Ho, Jenny Hong, Kyle Hsu, Jing Huang, Thomas Icard, Saahil Jain, Dan Jurafsky, Pratyusha Kalluri, Siddharth Karamcheti, Geoff Keeling, Fereshte Khani, Omar Khattab, Pang Wei Koh, Mark Krass, Ranjay Krishna, Rohith Kuditipudi, Ananya Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Mina Lee, Tony Lee, Jure Leskovec, Isabelle Levent, Xiang Lisa Li, Xuechen Li, Tengyu Ma, Ali Malik, Christopher D. Manning, Suvir Mirchandani, Eric Mitchell, Zanele Munyikwa, Suraj Nair, Avanika Narayan, Deepak Narayanan, Ben Newman, Allen Nie, Juan Carlos Niebles, Hamed Nilforoshan, Julian Nyarko, Giray Ogut, Laurel Orr, Isabel Papadimitriou, Joon Sung Park, Chris Piech, Eva Portelance, Christopher Potts, Aditi Raghunathan, Rob Reich, Hongyu Ren, Frieda Rong, Yusuf Roohani, Camilo Ruiz, Jack Ryan, Christopher Ré, Dorsa Sadigh, Shiori Sagawa, Keshav Santhanam, Andy Shih, Krishnan Srinivasan, Alex Tamkin, Rohan Taori, Armin W. Thomas, Florian Tramèr, Rose E. Wang, William Wang, Bohan Wu, Jiajun Wu, Yuhuai Wu, Sang Michael Xie, Michihiro Yasunaga, Jiaxuan You, Matei Zaharia, Michael Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Xikun Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Lucia Zheng, Kaitlyn Zhou, Percy Liang)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 11: CNNs, CNNs in Vision