Maria is a Bachelor of Computer Science from Ecuador. As a research assistant, she worked in projects including computer vision, the estimation of socio-economic indexes through CDRs analysis, and a machine learning model with sensors data. During her spare time, she likes to watch animes and read. She loves sports, especially soccer. She is also committed to environmental causes, and she is a huge fan of cats and dogs (she has 4 and 1 respectively).

Maria worked on the data visualizations of the CC Catalog as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2019, and also mentored for GSoC 2020.