Maria Brbic
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Develops machine learning methods for biomedicine, such as models that discover new cell types and generalize across single-cell datasets.
Maria Brbic's lab at EPFL works on genomics & computational biology, medical imaging & healthcare AI and signal processing & information theory. 21 papers since 2023, 18 at top venues, mostly ICML and NeurIPS. 5 PhD students and 7 master's students. 18 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 86%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 7
- alumni listed
- 18
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 4
- 4 papers2024 · T1 4
- 3 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, Nature, Nature Methods
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Genomics & computational biology3 papers
- datasets1 paper
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI0 papers
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- generalize0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- ICLR (T1)HeurekaBench: A Benchmarking Framework for AI Co-scientist (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)MARBLE: A Hard Benchmark for Multimodal Spatial Reasoning and Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Meta-RL Induces Exploration in Language Agents (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)PACER: Acyclic Causal Discovery from Large-scale Interventional Data (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)To Align or Not To Align: Check Your COMPASS Before You Train (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)When LLMs Speak with Confidence, Preference Alignment Gets Stronger (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Reviews GeneticsWhen the Genome Learned Its Own Vocabulary (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- ICLR (T1)Large (Vision) Language Models Are Unsupervised In-Context Learners (opens in a new tab)
- Nature BiotechnologySystema: A Framework for Evaluating Genetic Perturbation Response Prediction beyond Systematic Variation (opens in a new tab)
- Nature (T1)Towards Multimodal Foundation Models in Molecular Cell Biology (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Weak-to-strong Generalization Under Distribution Shifts (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- ICML (T1)Cross-Domain Open-World Discovery (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Fine-Grained Labels and How to Find Them (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Let Go of Your Labels with Unsupervised Transfer (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Methods (T1)Towards Universal Cell Embeddings: Integrating Single-cell RNA-seq Datasets across Species with SATURN (opens in a new tab)
20233 papers
- Science (T1)Aging Fly Cell Atlas Identifies Exhaustive Aging Features at Cellular Resolution (opens in a new tab)
- Nature (T1)Organization of the human intestine at single-cell resolution (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS spotlightThe Pursuit of Human Labeling: A New Perspective on Unsupervised Learning (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went18 listed
Apply to EPFLFall 2027
EDIC Computer and Communication Sciences PhD
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- Round 1
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- English
- TOEFL 100 / IELTS 7.0
- Fee
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