scverse Conference 2024

Maria Brbic is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Life Sciences at EPFL. She develops new machine learning methods and applies her methods to advance biology and biomedicine. Her methods have been used by global cell atlas consortia efforts aiming to create reference maps of all cell types with the potential to transform biomedicine, including the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) and Fly Cell Atlas consortium. Prior to joining EPFL in September 2022, Maria was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. Maria received her PhD from University of Zagreb in 2019 while also researching at Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar and University of Tokyo. Among other recognitions and awards, she was named a rising star in EECS by MIT in 2021, received the Josip Loncar silver plaque for outstanding PhD thesis in 2019 and the Early Career Bioinformatics Award by SIB in 2023.