Fei-Fei Li is a computer science professor at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, an organization that aims to advance AI research, education, policy and practice to improve the human condition.
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With experiences as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud and board member at Twitter (now known as X), Fei-Fei Li is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Li is one of the most cited computer scientists in the field of AI and is widely known as "the godmother of AI" for her work that has contributed to the birth of modern AI. Her book The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI was published in 2023.