# Fei-Fei Li

> Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford computer scientist, ImageNet creator and co-founder and CEO of World Labs. Her career spans visual recognition, human-centered AI and spatial world models. In September 2026, AMD announced an agreement to acquire World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion in stock, with Li set to become its executive vice president and chief scientist after the deal closes.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO, World Labs
- **Organizations:** World Labs, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI4ALL, Google Cloud, Radical Ventures
- **From:** Beijing, China
- **Nationality:** Chinese-American
- **Education:** BA in physics, with high honors, Princeton University, PhD in electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Created ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a large-scale benchmark for visual recognition., Co-founded AI4ALL, building on the SAILORS education program., Founded Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute with John Etchemendy.

## Career timeline

- **1995** — Graduated from Parsippany High School after moving from China to New Jersey as a teenager.
- **1999** — Earned a physics degree from Princeton and received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
- **2005** — Completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Caltech.
- **2009** — Published the ImageNet database work and joined Stanford’s faculty.
- **2013-2018** — Directed the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- **2015** — Co-founded the SAILORS outreach program, a precursor to AI4ALL.
- **2017-2018** — Served as a Google vice president and chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud.
- **2019** — Became founding co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
- **2023** — Published her memoir The Worlds I See.
- **2024** — Co-founded World Labs with Ben Mildenhall and Justin Johnson.
- **2025** — World Labs released Marble, its multimodal world model.
- **2026-09** — World Labs introduced Atlas; AMD announced a pending all-stock acquisition valued at approximately $8.2 billion.

## Achievements

- Created ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a large-scale benchmark for visual recognition.
- Co-founded AI4ALL, building on the SAILORS education program.
- Founded Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute with John Etchemendy.
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
- Published The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI in 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — AMD announced an agreement to acquire World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion in stock. The deal is expected to close by year-end, subject to approvals; Li is slated to become AMD executive vice president and chief scientist after closing.
- **2026-09** — World Labs introduced Atlas, a model for spatial generation, reconstruction and simulation.
- **2026-07** — World Labs acquired SceniX to expand its robotics simulation work.
- **2026-02** — World Labs announced new funding for its spatial-intelligence research.

## Links

- Website: https://vision.stanford.edu/feifeili/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fei-fei-li-4541247/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/drfeifei

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/fei-fei-li
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-09-29