When facial recognition emerged as a useful tool in the early 2000, I happened to be involved in a company working to bring cutting edge video analytics to the US market. I was intrigued by the technology behind it and how it worked (or didn't) and what the foundational technologies and algorithms that underpinned these developments were. I learned about "sparse data" techniques and "compressed sensing" and Fei Fei Li figured prominently in much of that research.
Fast forward 20 years and Fei Fei is still at the forefront of complex, high criticality machine learning and AI applications but has taken the leap into spatial computing as co-founder of World Labs. If you want to stay ahead of the curve on the coming robotics revolution and how spatial computing will drive AGI - you need to know where spatial computing is headed. Check out the link below for an interview with Fei Fei Li - she is one of the most influential scientists you probably never heard of - helping design our computational future.