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Researcher
Georg Heigold
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Heigold helped bring deep learning into large-scale speech recognition at Google, improving how systems model sounds and turn them into words. His work spans the core acoustic and language technologies behind voice interfaces and transcription.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle2019-presentResearcher
Google2019-presentEducation
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations125,110As of Nov 1, '26
citations+3,650Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
With Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Dirk Weissenborn, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Unterthiner, Mostafa Dehghani and others ·The Vision Transformer recognizes images by treating patches like words in a sequence.
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