Marta Costa-jussà
Research Scientist at Meta
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMarta Costa-jussà is a research scientist at Meta AI with a PhD in Computer Science from UPC and over a decade of deep expertise in machine translation and cross-language information retrieval. Her career spans leading academic and international research roles—co-leading MT-UPC, visiting positions across Brazil, Singapore and Mexico—and contributing to high-impact projects like NLLB and Seamless, both published in Nature. An ERC Starting Grant and multiple Google Faculty Research Awards underscore her ability to drive ambitious, foundational research that translates into large-scale industry impact. She has published hundreds of scientific papers and even co-authored a novel, signalling a rare blend of technical rigor and creative communication. Based in Barcelona, she combines long-term academic mentorship with hands-on applied research at Meta, often bridging statistical, hybrid and neural approaches in translation systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Catalan, Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (14)
dataset-generation8
mining7
translation6
nmt5
machine-learning5
nlp4
machine-translation4
natural-language-processing4
preprocessing4
tensorflow2
deep-learning2
neural2
asr1
neural-network1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MartaCostaJussa/interpretability
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
MartaCostaJussa/stopes
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
A library for preparing data for machine translation research (monolingual preprocessing, bitext mining, etc.) built by the FAIR NLLB team.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
nlpminingmachine-translationtranslationresearch-translation
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