University of Cambridge
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Karén SimonyanChief Scientist · Microsoft AIResearcher↗
Researcher
Matthias Minderer
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Minderer helped develop the Vision Transformer, which brought a language-model architecture to image recognition. He also led OWL-ViT, enabling AI to find objects in images from text descriptions, and contributed to PaliGemma’s ability to understand spatial relationships.
Career & education
Current roleMicrosoft AIMar 2025-presentMember of Technical Staff
Microsoft AIMar 2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2023-2025Senior Research Scientist -> Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2023-2025Google Brain2018-2023
AI Resident -> Senior Research ScientistWork 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.
citations119,401As of Oct 18, '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 ·Introduced the Vision Transformer, treating image patches like words in a sequence, showing that Transformers trained on large datasets could achieve strong image recognition results.
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