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Ross Girshick

AnthropicMember of Technical Staff

🇺🇸 American

Girshick reshaped how AI finds objects in images through the R-CNN family of models and Detectron, an open-source toolkit for building such systems. He co-founded Vercept in 2024 to build AI that operates software. Anthropic acquired it in February 2026 and brought its team into Claude’s computer-use work.[1]

Career & education

Current role
Feb 2026-present
Member of Technical Staff
Previously
2024-Feb 2026
Co-founder
2023-2024
Research Scientist
2015-2023
Research Scientist, FAIR
2014-2015
Researcher
Education

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.
11 snapshots
Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Oct 1, '26737,041671,711606,380Aug 252025Apr 152026Jul 12026Oct 12026
citations737,041As of Oct 1, '26
citations+10,428Since last snapshot, Sep 1, '26
For today’s citation count and per work, visit Google Scholar.

Selected contributions

  • Paper2017

    Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection

    With Tsung-Yi Lin, Priya Goyal, Kaiming He and Piotr Dollár

    Improved object detection by focusing training on difficult examples, preventing easy background regions from overwhelming learning and helping a simpler detector achieve strong recognition accuracy.

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  • Paper2017

    Mask R-CNN

    With Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari and Piotr Dollár

    Extended object detection to trace the outline of each individual object, allowing computers to identify what appears in an image and precisely where it is.

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  • Paper2016

    You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

    With Joseph Redmon, Santosh Divvala and Ali Farhadi

    Introduced YOLO, detecting objects and their locations in a single pass through a neural network, making fast, real-time object detection possible across an entire image.

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References

  1. Anthropic acquires Verceptanthropic.com

    February 2026 acquisition and the team’s move into Claude computer-use work.

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