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Her Doctor of Philosophy degree is in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2005.
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Fei-Fei Li
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She is the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and the Stanford Vision Laboratory She is a world-renowned expert on computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Princeton University in 1999 with High Honors.
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. Professor Fei-Fei Li is an expert in machine learning, computer vision, cognitive neuroscience and computational neuroscience, and Big Data analysis.
She publishes under the name Li Fei-Fei. She has authored more than 100 scientific articles
Her work appears in top-tier computer science and neuroscience journals and conferences, including Nature (journal), 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, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and many others
Among her best-known work is the ImageNet project, which has revolutionized the field of large-scale visual recognition. Doctor Fei-Fei Li is a recipient of the 2014 International Business Machines Corporation Faculty Fellow Award, 2011 Alfred Sloan Faculty Award, 2012 Yahoo Labs FREP award, 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER award, the 2006 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, and several Google awards. She has been featured in internationally renowned media venues such as New York Times, Science magazine, and many others
She gave a TED talk titled "How we"re teaching computers to understand pictures" in March 2015.
Professor Fei-Fei Li"s husband is Professor Silvio Savarese, who directs the Computational Vision and Geometry Laboratory at Stanford University.
They have a son.
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