Nanjing University
Peking University
Alexander KolesnikovResearch Scientist · MetaResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Xiaohua Zhai
Career & education
Current role
MetaJul 2025-presentResearch Scientist
MetaJul 2025-presentPreviously
OpenAI2025-2025Member of Technical Staff
Google DeepMind2017-2025Senior Staff Research Scientist
OpenAI2025-2025Google DeepMind2017-2025Education
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.
citations151,095As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,154Since last snapshot, 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, Thomas Unterthiner, Mostafa Dehghani, Matthias Minderer and others ·The Vision Transformer recognizes images by treating patches like words in a sequence.
References
- Xiaohua Zhai — research and modelssites.google.com
Zhai helped create widely used vision-language resources including WebLI, SigLIP and PaliGemma, improving how models connect images and text and making strong multimodal systems available as open weights.
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Reviewed August 9, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.
