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Alexey Dosovitskiy

Alexey Dosovitskiy is a co-founder and researcher at Recursive, where he works on computer vision, unsupervised learning, and machine learning for biology. He earned mathematics degrees in Moscow and held research posts at Freiburg and Intel Labs. FlowNet estimates optical flow with convolutional networks, and CARLA provides an open simulator for autonomous-driving research. At Google Research, he coauthored the Vision Transformer, which represents images as sequences of patches, then joined Inceptive to apply machine learning to RNA.

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Recursive
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Timeline

  1. 2009–2012

    Mathematics at Moscow State

    At Moscow State University, he earns an MSc in mathematics in 2009 and a PhD in 2012.

  2. 2013–2015

    A postdoctoral role in Freiburg

    From 2013 to 2015, he works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg’s Computer Vision Group, with work on unsupervised learning, image generation, and motion estimation.

  3. 2015

    FlowNet for optical flow

    In 2015, he coauthors FlowNet, which uses convolutional networks to solve optical-flow estimation as a supervised learning task.

  4. 2017

    CARLA for driving research

    CARLA, a project he coauthors in 2017, is an open-source simulator for developing, training, and validating autonomous urban-driving systems.

  5. 2017–2019

    Research scientist at Intel

    Between 2017 and 2019, he works as a research scientist at Intel Labs in Munich.

  6. 2019–2020

    The Vision Transformer

    At Google Research, he joins in 2019 and coauthors the Vision Transformer in 2020, which represents images as sequences of patches.

  7. February 2024

    Machine learning for RNA

    In February 2024, he joins Inceptive as a member of technical staff, focusing on machine learning for RNA.

  8. As of October 2026

    Research at Recursive

    As of October 2026, he is a co-founder and researcher at Recursive, working in computer vision, unsupervised learning, and machine learning for biology.

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Career

  1. NowRecursiveCo-founder and researcher
  2. From 2024InceptiveMember of technical staff
  3. 2019–2020Google Research
  4. 2017–2019IntelResearch scientist
  5. 2013–2015University of FreiburgPostdoctoral researcher

Education

  1. 2012Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityPhD in mathematics
  2. 2009Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityMSc in mathematics

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  4. Of 410 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 161 work there nowIncludes Google. Our estimates of where former Google and Google DeepMind people work now, including moves within Google.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Alexey Dosovitskiy | EML Munich eml-munich.de. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale research.google. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself thenextweb.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Recursive researchers | alphaXiv alphaxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.