Maria Brbić is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Life Sciences at EPFL. She is affiliated with the EPFL AI Center and EPFL Institute of Bioengineering. Her research interests are in the areas of machine learning and deep learning, focusing on applications to biology and biomedicine. Prior to joining the EPFL faculty in 2022, Maria was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, where she worked with Jure Leskovec. She was a member of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub at Stanford. Maria received her Ph.D. from University of Zagreb in 2019, earning an Outstanding Thesis Award. During her PhD, she also conducted research 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 and received an Early Career Award by SIB in 2023. She was awarded with the SNSF Starting Grant in 2024. Maria is an ELLIS Scholar.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Master Students
Research Engineers
Administrative Assistant
Lab Alumni
Fabian Gröger (University of Basel) – Visiting PhD Student
Jovana Videnović (University of Ljubljana) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Amirabbas Afzali (Sharif University of Technology) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Hang Guo (Tsinghua University) – Summer @EPFL Intern
Sílvia Fàbregas Salazar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Huyen Le (EPFL) – MSc Student
Ananya Gupta (EPFL) – MSc Student
Ivo Ban (ETH Zurich) – BSc Student
Alexandru Oarga (Universitat de Barcelona) – MSc Student
Jan Sobotka (EPFL) – MSc Student
Matej Grcić (University of Zagreb) – Visiting PhD Student
Nikita Morozov (HSE University) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Qingyan Guo (Tsinghua University) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Daria Nogina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Maurizio Fiusco (Tor Vergata University of Rome) – Summer@EPFL Intern, Visiting MSc Student
Marta Knežević (EPFL) – Master’s Student
Jeremy Goumaz (EPFL) – Master’s Student
Artur Dox (EPFL) – Master’s Student
Chanakya Ekbote (EPFL) – Master’s Student
Yuzhu Tian (EPFL) – Master’s Student
Jérémy Baffou (EPFL) – Master’s Student
Adit Shah (UC Berkeley) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Jiashuo Fan (Tsinghua) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Jocelyn Zhu (MIT) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Masatoshi Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) – Summer@EPFL Intern
Elizaveta Neustroeva (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) – Summer@EPFL Intern