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Alexander Kolesnikov

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Research Scientist at Meta

Kolesnikov co-created the Vision Transformer, which adapted the architecture behind modern language models to images by treating them as sequences of small patches. It became a foundation for leading vision systems. He also helped develop Big Transfer, SigLIP and large-scale multimodal models.

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Background

Current role
Research Scientist 2025-present
Previously
2024-2025Member of Technical Staff,
2023-2024Staff Research Scientist,
2018-2023
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26146,508121,60896,707Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
146,508citations as of Sep 1, '26+7,038 since Aug 1, '26
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