Researcher · Founder
Illia Polosukhin
NEAR ProtocolCo-founder
Career & education
Current roleNEAR Protocol2017-presentCo-founder
NEAR Protocol2017-presentPreviously
Google2014-2017Researcher
Google2014-2017Education
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.
citations319,153As of Nov 1, '26
citations+7,939Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Attention Is All You Need
With Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez and Lukasz KaiserThe Transformer uses attention to translate text while allowing faster training.
References
- Attention Is All You Need — original Transformer paperarxiv.org
Polosukhin co-authored “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper that introduced the Transformer design behind modern language models.
- NEAR AI — founder and privacy-preserving AI missionnear.ai
He co-founded NEAR Protocol and later NEAR AI, pursuing AI services that protect users’ data and give them more control over how it is used.
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Reviewed October 19, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.