Feifei Li is a database researcher at Alibaba Cloud, where she is a senior vice president in the Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group. In 2021, she was named as an ACM Fellow, and as an IEEE Fellow. She received a bachelor's degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2002, and a Ph.D. from Boston University in 2007. Her dissertation, Query and data security in the data outsourcing model, was supervised by George Kollios. World Labs, co-founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li develops so-called world models that can help train robots to perform tasks by building working representations of three-dimensional reality. On September 28th, 2026 World Labs was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for 8.2 Billion dollars.
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