María Vallina
Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Plexigrid
Ríoseco, Principality of Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolMaría Vallina is a Senior AI Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and applied ML, holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Groningen. Her research on visual place recognition and data-efficient representation learning (including a CVPR-published methodology) underpins practical work leading multimodal and generative AI efforts at NielsenIQ and now at Plexigrid. She combines deep expertise in contrastive representation learning and graph-based ML with hands-on product-driven deployment, improving product understanding across text, image, and networked data. An advocate for reproducible research and PhD student rights, she has published datasets and methods (TB-Places) from robotics projects and helped shape university diversity and inclusion policy. Despite a focus on cutting-edge models, she keeps a pragmatic BI and software engineering foundation from earlier roles, making her effective at taking research into production.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería Informática del Software Ingeniería de software, Grado en Ingeniería Informática del Software Ingeniería de software at Universidad de OviedoMaster in Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Master in Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Rovira i VirgiliDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Groningen
Spanish, English, French, neerlandés, asturiano
Github Skills (12)
fusion7
localization6
science5
visual-recognition4
artificial-intelligence4
machine-learning4
feature-matching4
scale3
computer-vision3
re-identification3
patch3
pytorch2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marialeyvallina/generalized_contrastive_loss
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
marialeyvallina/TB_Places
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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