Anna Badalyan

Anna Badalyan is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, affiliated with the Perceiving Systems department. She is supervised by Dr. Victoria Fernandez-Abrevaya and specializes in 3D garment reconstruction from images and garment details extraction using vision language models. Previously, she completed her master's degree in Data Science at the University of Padua (2021–2024) and worked at the Algorithms and Society group at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen.

Education

• Masters Degree in Data Science, University of Padua (2021–2024)
• BUCA Summer School (BiCi + Google collaboration, 2023)
• Data Analytics Nanodegree, Udacity (2020)
• Vyshaya Proba Mathematics Olympiad awardee (2015)

Her research focuses on machine learning, hypergraph community detection, and vision language models. She has implemented advanced neural architectures for medical imaging analysis and probabilistic models for higher-order interactions. Her work bridges data science with applications in social sciences, fashion technology, and network analysis.

Anna has received recognition for her academic excellence, including a competitive BUCA Summer School placement (top 5% GPA), a national Udacity scholarship in Uzbekistan, and an international mathematics olympiad award. Her GitHub repositories showcase implementations of click models, HyCoSBM, and semi-supervised optimization frameworks.