# Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs; Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. TIME100 AI 2026, Thinkers. AMD agreed in September 2026 to buy World Labs, the AI lab she leads, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. ([ir.amd.com](https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute))

- Born: 1976-07-03, Beijing, China ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li))
- Education: PhD, Electrical engineering, Caltech, 2005; BA, Physics, Princeton University, 1999 ([profiles.stanford.edu](https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li))
- Career: World Labs (Co-founder and CEO, 2024 to now); Google (Chief Scientist of AI/ML and Vice President, 2017–2018); Stanford University (Sequoia Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director, Stanford HAI, from 2009); Princeton University (Assistant Professor, 2006–2009); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Assistant Professor, 2005–2006) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fei-fei-li-4541247), [ir.amd.com](https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li), [profiles.stanford.edu](https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/fei-fei-li/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/fei-fei-li

- Moved from China to New Jersey at 16 and spent weekends in high school working at her family's dry-cleaning shop. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li))
- Created ImageNet, the huge labeled image database that fueled the 2010s boom in computer vision, with students in the late 2000s. ([news.stanford.edu](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/11/fei-fei-li-queen-elizabeth-prize-engineering))
- In September 2026 AMD agreed to buy her two-year-old startup World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock; she is set to become AMD's chief scientist. ([ir.amd.com](https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute))
- King Charles III handed her the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which she shared with Nvidia's Jensen Huang and others. ([news.stanford.edu](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/11/fei-fei-li-queen-elizabeth-prize-engineering))
- Says running a startup brings out her "tiger mom" side, since she is by far the most senior person there. ([businessinsider.com](https://www.businessinsider.com/godmother-of-ai-feifei-li-world-labs-tiger-mom-2026-8))
- Co-founded AI4ALL in 2017, a nonprofit working to increase diversity in artificial intelligence. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li))