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Alexey Dosovitskiy

Alexey Dosovitskiy portrait

Co-founder at Recursive

🇷🇺 Russian

Dosovitskiy was lead author of the Vision Transformer, which showed that Transformers—not only convolutional networks—could excel at image recognition. He also created FlowNet, an early system for estimating motion directly from pairs of images.

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Background

Current role
Co-founder Jan 2026-present
Previously
Feb 2024-Dec 2025Member of Technical Staff,
2023-2024Staff Research Scientist,
2017-2019Research Scientist,
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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, '26175,927152,201128,474Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
175,927citations as of Sep 1, '26+5,164 since Aug 1, '26
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