'At Google, we list AI projects we don't do'

Jia Li is very passionate about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can improve healthcare. When one of her close family members suffered from a skin condition, she worked on developing an image recognition technology to help classify such diseases and diagnose them better. Now, as the head of R&D for Cloud AI, Google Cloud and an adjunct professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, Dr. Li and her team at Google focus on research and innovation to solve real-world problems. This includes developing AI products on Google Cloud to power solutions for diverse industries. Edited excerpts: Dr. Li who before joining Google led research and innovation efforts at Snapchat's parent company Snap and Yahoo!