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). I work at the EPFL Computer Vision Lab on transformer architectures for 3D scene reconstruction, and I'm currently building a real-time controllable text-to-motion model with kinematic conditioning.

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. This past summer I was 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

Student Researcher at EPFL Computer Vision Lab

Lausanne, Switzerland

October 2025 - Present

Machine Learning Intern at GoodNotes

London, United Kingdom

July 2025 - September 2025

Undergrad Researcher at Computer Vision Center

Barcelona, Spain

September 2023 - June 2025

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🎓 Education

Master's in Data Science

EPFL, Laussane, Switzerland

September 2025 - August 2027

Bachelor's in Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

September 2021 - June 2025

🏆 Honors & Scholarships

MSc Data Science at EPFL on a top 0.004% Excellence Fellowship. 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 Academic Record, Ibiza, 2025 (top 2 students across all degrees in the region)
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    Best Research Project, UAB Computer Vision Center, 2024 and 2025 (1 student per year)
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    CVPR & ECCV DEI Scholarships, 2024-2025 (29 of 524 applicants for ECCV)
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    4 research scholarships from the Computer Vision Center, 2023-2025
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