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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.

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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...

  • 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...

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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...

  • 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...

  • Andrej Karpathy

    PhD student (adviser Fei-Fei Li); creator and lead instructor of CS231n, 2011-2015

    OpenAI founding member, Tesla's head of AI, coiner of "vibe coding," and since May 2026 a researcher at Anthropic.

  • Bill Dally

    Professor of computer science; department chair from 2005 to 2009, 1997-2009

    Parallel-computing architect who has run NVIDIA Research since 2009 and made the GPU case for deep learning inside it.

  • Ian Buck

    PhD student in computer science under Pat Hanrahan; led the Brook project, 2001-2004

    Created CUDA after a Stanford PhD on GPU programming; now runs NVIDIA's data-center AI products for cloud buyers.

  • Jack Clark

    Founding member and co-chair, AI Index, 2017-2024

    Former tech reporter who ran policy at OpenAI and Anthropic; now leads The Anthropic Institute and writes Import AI.

  • Jim Fan

    PhD student in the Stanford Vision Lab, advised by Fei-Fei Li, 2016-2021

    OpenAI's first intern, then builder of Minecraft and robot-learning agents who co-leads NVIDIA's humanoid robot models.