About me

Li-Jia Li received the PhD degree from the Computer Science Department, Stanford University. She holds the position of AI fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University in the School of Medicine. In Healthcare, she is interested in how AI could improve the outcomes of individual patients as well as hospitals. She was the head of R&D at Google Cloud AI. Their mission is to democratize AI and advance AI. Her org focus on both research innovation to solve real world problems and developing the full stack of AI products on Google Cloud to power solutions for diverse industries. Before joining Google, She was the head of Research at Snap, leading the research innovation effort. Before Snap, she led the Visual Computing and Learning Group at Yahoo! Labs. In 2014, she was selected to receive the Super Star award at Yahoo!, the highest award at the company. She was also awarded the Master Inventor Award for her innovations in AI/ML. She was the leader of the OPTIMOL team, which won the first prize in the Semantic Robotics Vision Challenge sponsored by NSF and AAAI in 2007. She served as the Program chair of ACM Multimedia 2017, Area chair of ICCV 2017 and CVPR 2019, Industry Relationship chair of CVPR 2016 and Volunteers chair of CVPR 2010. She is on The Computer Vision Foundation Industrial Advisory Board. She is serving as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and associate editor of the Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics by Springer. She is selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2018. Her work has been reported in the media including: Forbes, TechCrunch, CNBC, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review and more in recent years.