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

Student Researcher at EPFL Computer Vision Lab

Lausanne, Switzerland

October 2025 - July 2026

Machine Learning Intern at GoodNotes

London, United Kingdom

July 2025 - September 2025

Undergrad Researcher at Computer Vision Center

Barcelona, Spain

September 2023 - June 2025

⚡ Hackathons

🎓 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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