“Maria is an expert in network analysis and modelling, developing and applying powerful statistical analysis and machine-learning methods to analyze measurements from real-world complex networks, such as Internet, the Internet of Things, and biological networks. Her work in mobile computing had introduced mobile peer-to-peer computing, a new paradigm in mobile networks, as part of her Ph.D. thesis under my supervision. She was one of the first researchers to start analyzing and modeling large-scale real-world wireless networks in 2003. Her on-going research focuses on the identification of the fundamental modules of computation in the visual cortex and the analysis of neural-circuit function during learning. She is particularly interested in understanding how information about the visual stimulus is represented, how these circuits malfunction in normal ageing and in several disease states, and the identification of functional network patterns in visual cortex and relating these to the stimulus processing properties of the cortex.”

- Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA