Milestones

Key milestones and important events in this wiki's history

Began PhD at IST Austria

1st January 2013

Started his PhD studies at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, focusing on computer vision and deep representation learning under advisor Christoph H. Lampert.

Joined Google as a Researcher

1st January 2018

Began his career as a researcher at Google, working with the Google Brain and DeepMind teams. He contributed to key projects like Vision Transformer (ViT) and MLP-Mixer.

Joined OpenAI

1st December 2024

Joined OpenAI to co-establish its Zurich office alongside colleagues Xiaohua Zhai and Lucas Beyer, continuing his research in advanced AI models.

Joined Meta's Superintelligence Team

1st June 2025

Was hired by Meta Platforms to join its superintelligence efforts, moving from OpenAI's Zurich office along with researchers Lucas Beyer and Xiaohua Zhai.

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