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.

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

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