Maria Pilligua

I am a Master's student in Data Science at EPFL and an AI Research Intern at CARIAD. My research focuses on 3D vision, scene understanding, and controllable generative models. Previously, I conducted research at EPFL CVLab and the Computer Vision Center, resulting in five publications at CVPR and ECCV (four as first author). Currently interested in 3D scene reconstruction, vision foundation models, autonomous driving, and robotics perception.

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5 publications at CVPR / ECCV (4 first-author) · EPFL Excellence Fellowship (ESOP) · highest GPA across all UAB engineering degrees · formerly at CVC UAB and EPFL CVLab

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💻 Experience

Intern at CARIAD (Volkswagen Group)

July 2026 - Present

Machine Learning Intern at GoodNotes

London, United Kingdom

July 2025 - September 2025

Projects: Text-to-SVG

🎓 Education

🏆 Scholarships

MSc Data Science at EPFL on a top 0.004% Excellence Fellowship, current GPA 5.42/6. Graduated UAB with the highest GPA across all engineering degrees (9.41/10), with honors on 18 courses including 3D Vision, Generative Models, Deep Learning, CV and NLP.

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    EPFL MSc Excellence Fellowship (ESOP), 2025 (top 0.004% of incoming MSc students, 30 total, 40k CHF grant)
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    Best Academic Record across all UAB engineering degrees, 2025 (granted to 4 students)
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    Best Research Project, UAB Computer Vision Center, 2024 and 2025 (given to 1 out of ~20 research students per year)
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