Maria Beatriz Silva

I am a Presidential Honors Scholar studying Computer Science at NYU’s Courant Institute with a minor in Mathematics. As a Research Assistant at NYU’s Immersive Computing Lab, I work on problems at the intersection of computer graphics, human perception, and machine learning. My work is driven by the commitment to ensure technology is developed with the needs of its users in mind and by the desire to reshape who gets to participate in and benefit from technological innovation.

Projects

PaperTrail

PaperTrail

Natural Language Processing (Graduate Level)

A fork of AutoDDG (an automated dataset description generator) that enhances dataset descriptions by incorporating contextual information from citing research papers.

NLP • Python

GitHub Project Details Poster Paper
Geometry Remesher

Geometry Remesher

Geometric Modeling (Graduate Level)

Implementation of the Alliez et al. remeshing pipeline to generate uniform, high-quality re-triangulations of 3D models.

Python • NumPy • libigl

GitHub Project Details
Laplacian Mesh Deformer

Laplacian Mesh Deformer

Geometric Modeling (Graduate Level)

Interactive 3D mesh deformation system that preserves high-frequency geometric details using multiresolution Laplacian editing and sparse Cholesky decomposition for near real-time performance.

Python • Numpy • libigl • SciPy

GitHub Project Details
Fine-Tuning Language Models

Fine-Tuning Language Models

Natural Language Processing (Graduate Level)

Fine-tuned BERT for sentiment classification with robustness testing and T5 for natural language to SQL translation, implementing evaluation pipelines and data augmentation strategies.

Python • PyTorch • Hugging Face • BERT • T5

GitHub Project Details
Murano Glass Cup

Murano Glass Cup

Intro to Computer Graphics

Recreating murano glass and its unique patterns using procedural texturing and advanced shading techniques.

OpenGL • GLSL

GitHub Play with the cup!