Maria Pilligua

I'm a Master's student in Data Science at EPFL, on an Excellence Fellowship (ESOP, top 0.004% of incoming MSc students), where I previously did research at the EPFL Computer Vision Lab on transformer architectures for 3D scene reconstruction. I'm currently interning at CARIAD (Volkswagen Group), working on perception for autonomous vehicles by fusing camera and radar information.

I graduated in Artificial Intelligence from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with the highest GPA across all engineering degrees (9.41/10). I have 5 papers at CVPR / ECCV (4 as first author), specializing in generative AI and controllability in vision models. I previously worked as a Machine Learning intern at GoodNotes in London, where I shipped a diffusion-based text-to-SVG feature now used by millions.

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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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