Home of the Stanford AI Lab, which Andrew Ng and Fei-Fei Li each directed, and of the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), co-founded by Li in 2019 and merged with Stanford Data Science in May 2026, when Li became Special Advisor on AI to the university's president while remaining Sequoia Professor of Computer Science. Ng is an adjunct professor.
People here now
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Andrew Ng
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, 2002-present
Computer scientist and teacher who started Google Brain, co-founded Coursera, ran Baidu's 1,300-person AI group, and now runs DeepLearning.AI, AI Fund and Le...
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Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science; founding co-director of HAI, 2009-present
Builder of ImageNet, the dataset behind deep learning's 2012 breakthrough in vision; founding director of Stanford HAI; now CEO of World Labs, a $1 billion-f...
Formerly here
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Emily M. Bender
MA and PhD student in Linguistics, then Acting Assistant Professor and CSLI researcher, 1995-2003
Computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote the octopus paper and "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots," coined the phrase "stochast...
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Timnit Gebru
PhD, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2013-2017
Electrical engineer and computer scientist who co-wrote Gender Shades, Datasheets for Datasets and Stochastic Parrots, left Google in a disputed exit in Dece...
