As the most authoritative award in the field of scientific research, the Bell Prize is undoubtedly the lifelong dream of countless researchers. In an interview in 2001, a Chinese-American female scientist said: "If one day I can win the Nobel Prize, I will definitely stand on the podium in a Chinese way."
She is the top talent of Chinese Americans, Li Feifei, an academician of the American Academy of Sciences, as one of the earliest students in China to study abroad, from a little girl with nothing to today's highly anticipated scientific giant, the heartache behind being able to obtain so many achievements may only be known by herself.
When she said this sentence in the interview, she instantly won the support of many domestic netizens, let's first put aside whether she can win this award, at least in the mind of this beautiful female scientist, she has never forgotten her own bloodline, has not forgotten her Chinese identity.
Such remarks can be said to be rare and valuable in the general environment at that time, and it is undoubtedly the most painful for too many top talents trained by too many countries to go to foreign countries, develop high-end science and technology, and aim the muzzle of the gun at their own motherland. Our motherland still needs more outstanding patriots like Li Feifei.
Li Feifei
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After the founding of New China, Our country quickly embarked on a period of rapid development, but also increased the investment in educational resources, by the end of the last century, there have been a large number of outstanding students, for the development of the motherland to contribute their own strength, but there are also many talents who have chosen to go to foreign countries to study, in order to master their own ability.
Some of them hope to learn advanced science and technology in cities with developed economy and education, and change their poor fate, and some people are because the most advanced scientific research instruments abroad can carry out cutting-edge scientific research, no matter what the considerations, our country always respects their choice, and is also doing its best to help these students realize their wishes, so in addition to those rich children can study overseas at their own expense, the state also sponsors many students to go overseas through public dispatch to study abroad, in order to help them complete their dreams.
Although this method has cultivated many Chinese genius scientists in a short period of time, many people choose to stay in developed countries after going abroad, and Li Feifei is one of the Chinese Americans who have been wandering abroad for many years.
Li Feifei's growth path
Beijing
Born in 1976, Li Feifei grew up in a well-to-do family in Beijing, his parents were well-known local intellectuals, his father was a teacher, his mother was a people's teacher, because of his parents' work, Li Feifei's family moved from the capital to Chengdu from an early age.
In the blink of an eye, when he reached the age of school, Li Feifei looked very sweet and cute, and people couldn't help but like this little girl. Perhaps by nature, or perhaps by the smell of family books, Li Feifei has been full of curiosity about the things around him since he was a child, and often shows a strong desire for knowledge.
Parents also have the ability and time to tutor and answer all the questions of their children, plus she has a very high level of understanding, and her grades have been at the top of the class since she started school, so she is loved by her classmates and teachers. It became what parents called someone else's child. Since then, she has maintained her state of study and successfully entered a key local high school. Perhaps it is precisely with this colorful childhood experience that Li Feifei has always been worried about his hometown and the group of people who grew up with him, no matter where he is.
When Li Feifei felt that she would continue to live happily and happily like this, when she was sixteen years old, a change occurred, and one of her parents decided to completely change the trajectory of this flower girl's life. At that time, under the influence of Deng Gong's opening up policy, a large amount of Western capital poured into the domestic market, and the continuous collision of Eastern and Western cultures in China successfully attracted the attention of many people, so a wave of immigration was set off in China.
As intellectuals, Li Feifei's parents want to immigrate much easier than ordinary people. Although this family in the country has been regarded as a well-off level, the standard of living is much higher than ordinary people, the daughter is studying in a key high school, if there is no choice to go abroad, maintain the current learning momentum in the country to read a university that says the name should be no problem, but the two parents of the hope daughter Chengfeng are still not satisfied with the status quo, as the first batch of scholars in the country, they are well aware of the power of knowledge, hoping to provide their daughter with a better living environment and more powerful learning resources, after an ideological struggle, Once again, the family moved from Chengdu to live in the United States.
New York
The ideal is full, but the reality can make people instantly sober, after coming to the United States, the family not only did not live the ideal happy life, but because of the high-end living standards and became very poor. Although the parents in China are intellectuals, but because they have just come to this place where they are not familiar with life, coupled with the language communication is not smooth, the two people do not say that they have found a stable job, even the daily communication has a big problem, although the English results on the two test papers are not bad, but they have never been in contact with foreigners, they simply cannot convert rote words into fluent language, which may be very similar to many students who have just studied abroad.
But even if you encounter more difficulties, there is no way back at the moment, life has to go on, helplessly, for the sake of their daughter's studies, the former respected intellectuals can only choose to do hard work to maintain their livelihood, fortunately, Li Feifei's parents did not have low eyes because they had knowledge, very diligent, his father went to a photo studio to repair the camera, his mother became a cashier, Li Feifei will also do some part-time subsidies for the family in his spare time.
For this little girl who has never been in the world, life has fallen from heaven to the bottom, when the days of worry-free food and clothing have become now worrying about their own food and clothing every day, but fortunately, life is barely passable, and slowly the family has adapted to life in a foreign country, but such a life is inevitably too heavy for a sixteen-year-old girl.
After all, such a life is not a long-term solution, and the family moved to the United States to live not to live a good life, but to change places to work as laborers, but to live a better life. Inspired by his parents, Li Feifei understood that only by studying harder could he change his family's life.
After that, she began the battle mode, studying desperately, using all the time to improve her ability, the hardest time, this little girl only slept four or five hours a day, such a learning state is basically difficult to see under the relaxed education state in the United States, Li Feifei has gradually become a role model for her classmates to learn.
Princeton University
However, as parents, the two see their daughter so much learning pressure is also very painful and self-blame, although their intention is to bring a better life and learning environment to their daughter, so that she can learn to achieve success, to achieve their dreams, but they never thought of a decision of their own daughter to carry so much, husband and wife comforted the daughter said: try to do your best to do yourself, don't be too hard, we will always be your strong backing.
Li Feifei looked at the vicissitudes of his parents' faces, there was an indescribable taste in his heart, after coming to the United States, his parents seemed to have aged more than ten years overnight, and the original well-off family could only be at the bottom of society, although they had been psychologically prepared before coming, but when they really faced this situation, it was still difficult to accept.
Strive to change the status quo of life
Whenever she was tired of studying, thinking of her parents' expectant eyes and rickety figures, she immediately came to her senses and continued to pick up a pen to study. After two years of hard study, she did not let her parents' expectations be disappointed, nor did she live up to her efforts, successfully admitted to Princeton University, and won a scholarship with excellent results, and her parents no longer need to worry about high tuition fees.
There is a big difference between the cost of studying in the United States and studying in China, whether it is a private school or a public school, you need to pay expensive tuition, and it is precisely because of this that many students who want to go to college must bear huge student loans, and they also need to work for a long time after graduation to pay off this fee. Therefore, tuition fees have always been the biggest worry of Li Feifei's parents, fortunately, their girls are very sensible and have solved this thorny problem through their own efforts. The stone hanging in their hearts finally fell.
Out of love for natural sciences, Li Feifei chose physics major, just entered the university, when the students are enjoying the days of college time, sensible Li Feifei still chose a work-study life, to ensure their daily life, to minimize the burden of parents, in four years, in addition to classes and time in the library, she will squeeze out all her spare time to go out to work, only continuous efforts can change the status quo.
In the process of such day-to-day efforts, Li Feifei not only gained a complete and solid knowledge system, but also let this gentle and lovely girl meet many excellent classmates, with her own reputation, Li Feifei and friends around her raised a sum of money to open a laundry shop for her parents, which can not only reduce the burden of her parents' lives, but also save time from work to devote herself to learning.
Recalling the life of the two-point and one-line life in the laundromat classroom, Li Feifei did not feel any pain at all, and said with a smile: I love my school very much, I love my laundromat very much, these two places are indispensable to me, and there is no link between them and there is no me now.
Li Feifei, who studied physics in college, was exposed to the field of artificial intelligence for the first time, and was deeply immersed in it, unable to extricate herself, so in the following time, she was busy consolidating her professional knowledge, while taking time to learn artificial intelligence and biology, with the continuous deepening of the knowledge learned, Li Feifei's ideas in her heart are becoming more and more firm, she believes that in the future era, artificial intelligence will definitely shine on the social stage and become an important part of human development. From the perspective of the current development of artificial intelligence, Li Feifei was indeed very far-sighted.
artificial intelligence
Li Feifei, who has a keen sense of scientific and technological development, made up his mind to take artificial intelligence and related neurobiology as his next direction of study, which means that the girl not only needs to complete her current studies, but also has to take time to conduct research in the direction of artificial intelligence and neurobiology.
Specializing in multiple fields at the same time is a huge challenge for ordinary people, but for a student who studies until late at night all year round, the study of multiple subjects does not make her feel particularly weak, but she is driven by interest and becomes more and more motivated.
Soon after, Li Feifei completed her physics studies with an excellent graduation thesis, she naturally came from a famous school without the high salaries of many companies, and her tutor also hoped that this child who had the motivation to struggle for academics could continue to study, but Li Feifei rejected these one by one, many years of overseas life, she never found that sense of belonging, and for many years she and her parents were constantly running for life, and there was no opportunity to return to her hometown, plus the mother who worked hard for many years was already overworked at this time. Hope to return to their home country.
Return to Japan after graduation
For these reasons, Li Feifei, who graduated from college, did not stay in the United States to develop and embarked on a journey back to China. From here, it is not difficult for us to find Li Feifei, although she has lived in a foreign country for many years, she has always missed her motherland, and the traditional virtues of filial piety to the elders of the Chinese nation have always been remembered and never forgotten.
After returning to China, Li Feifei went to Tibet to study medicine, although she had never been exposed to this field before, but in the future of her mother, she still wanted to try her best, during this time she and the local herders together to collect medicine and medicine, although this seems to be only the simplest physical labor, but on the plateau, simple work also needs more physical support, she never wanted to give up.
Tibet
Along the way, such a life not only honed her mind, but also made her feel happier than ever. People always say that Tibet is the closest place to heaven, and living here can purify her soul, so although she did not have any earth-shattering academic achievements during this time, her heart was richer than ever. After many years of absence from his hometown, he also found his own sense of belonging in this pure land.
Go to the United States again for the sake of your dreams
After a period of time, Li Feifei returned to the United States again and officially began research in the field of artificial intelligence. Although she is alone, she still thinks about her homeland, and in an interview in 2001, she said the opening sentence: If I can win the Nobel Prize one day, I will definitely stand on the podium as a Chinese. For a time, he attracted the support of countless Chinese people.
At that time, artificial intelligence was just emerging. The tech giant U.S. is only in its infancy in this area. In addition, the world's ordinary people and scientific giants are not optimistic about this field, and they always believe that robots in cutting-edge fields can never replace human work. But Li Feifei did not hesitate because of these external doubts, she firmly believes in her judgment, the future society will definitely have a place for artificial intelligence.
In this way, she once again began the dormitory and library two points and one line of life, after years of specialized study, she successfully developed a set of artificial intelligence programs, and was widely used in a variety of electronic devices, to bring great convenience to people's lives, li Feifei who obtained such results also successfully obtained a doctorate in electrical engineering, because of outstanding achievements, during the study period has been sponsored by the American Foundation for many times.
After graduation, Li Feifei did not stop learning, and did not stop working in the artificial intelligence laboratory of Stanford University, mainly specializing in computer vision recognition. Although the research on image recognition has been carried out for many years, due to the limitations of technology, the ability of computers to recognize organisms has only a few functions for a long time, and there has been no special progress.
Li Feifei was interviewed by reporters
Everyone recognized Li Feifei's learning ability, so the classmates around her and even her mentor advised her to change her research direction and not waste her scientific research talents because of this place that did not see the prospects. However, Li Feifei's character of not accepting defeat since she was a child, coupled with the calm mentality she had exercised during her life in Tibet, made her not afraid of the dilemma she was facing ahead, and these words of persuasion not only did not make her have the idea of giving up, but made her more determined in her choice, and she launched a charge into this field without hesitation.
But the predecessors of decades of research has not progressed, even if Li Feifei is talented can not be easily overcome by her two or three days, but in any case she will not give up, just like this, Li Feifei with his own team began to experience the journey of failure, the method does not work and then change, insufficient funds on their own to go out to pull sponsorship, can not pull their own money to study, so after experiencing countless times of failure, Li Feifei mastered a new idea, but because of the backwardness of the equipment, the recognition rate of the machine is not as high as the human eye, There were only a handful of items that could be identified, and the team proposed a variety of solutions without significant improvements, even to the point where there was no funding and the experiment was about to be terminated.
At this most critical juncture, Li Feifei finally got the favor of heaven, she hired a large number of people to screen and mark the pictures online, which greatly increased the accuracy of computer recognition, although there was no qualitative leap, but finally let the frustrated team see the dawn.
After success, do not seek fame and fortune, and guard the original intention
In 2009, Li Feifei waited for an opportunity to prove herself, and the world held a computer image recognition competition, because the identity of Li Feifei's newcomer team did not get the qualification to show, but she did not miss this rare and valuable opportunity, she talked with the relevant responsible person many times, asking them to let their team participate in the competition, but for these people who have worked in this field for many years, they have seen too many failed works. They simply don't realize that this new team can make an effective product. Although she was dismissive of Li Feifei, in the face of repeated requests from a gentle and cute beauty, the organizer agreed to try her product.
Google Inc
This test, let everyone in the competition dumbfounded, Li Feifei's products can not only identify a large number of items, but also have a very high accuracy rate, for this reason, the organizers are also dedicated to their products to open a booth for everyone to visit. In this way, Li Feifei's team has gained a certain reputation in the field of artificial intelligence in the world, and a number of well-known companies have issued invitations to this potential scientific research rookie.
But these Li Feifei don't care, what she cares about is that her products have finally been recognized, she is full of fighting spirit, constantly moving forward, and constantly breaking through human cognition. Even more incredible than this incredible product is that there are only three people on the team that created such a massive database.
Li Feifei, who could have made a lot of money with this technology, made a decision that shocked everyone, she gave up this opportunity to make money, but opened the technology that her team had worked hard to study for free, and for a time Li Feifei's name was completely launched in the field of AI.
Soon after, Li Feifei was hired as a tenured professor at Stanford University and became the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Office, at this time Li Feifei had already given birth to her own child, and she undoubtedly stood at the peak of her life and let everyone stop and look up.
As a Chinese, Li Feifei is also very concerned about our domestic education work, she established a China center in Google, looking for many Chinese scholars to carry out scientific research work together, she is also very concerned about the development of the motherland, participated in many scientific research projects, providing a new direction for the development of AI technology in China. During the epidemic, she also combined artificial intelligence and medical careers to make her own contribution to the fight against the epidemic.
Li Feifei smiled happily
Li Feifei's ideal has always been ambitious, in the face of the wide pursuit of artificial intelligence, she has behaved very calmly, she hopes to see that artificial intelligence can benefit mankind, rather than in the hands of a small number of people. From a little girl who has left her hometown to an outstanding talent in the field of artificial intelligence, she has always been loyal to her ideals, and such scientists are what is needed for the development of today's society. Today's video ends here, what do you think of our AI goddess Li Feifei? Welcome to like and comment on the message, your support is my unremitting motivation to make better videos! Let's see each other in the next issue!
Original link: Chinese-American academician Li Feifei, not forgetting the grace of the country, hopes to stand on the Nobel podium as a Chinese