Lead AI researcher
Who is Dr. Elena Marquez? Lead AI researcher at Food Tracker Compass
Lead AI researcher & benchmark architect
PhD Computer Vision, ETH Zürich · Zürich, Switzerland · she/her
Elena leads the recognition and accuracy half of the Food Tracker Compass benchmark. She spent four years at Google Research designing evaluation protocols for production multimodal models and three years at Meta FAIR working on vision-language grounding. Her PhD at ETH Zürich focused on long-tail object recognition — the same problem class that makes food images hard. She founded Food Tracker Compass in 2024 because no public benchmark of AI calorie trackers was held to the standards she had been applying inside large research labs for a decade.
What is Dr. Elena Marquez's area of expertise?
Multimodal visionLong-tail recognitionBenchmark designFood image datasets
Where did Dr. Elena Marquez study?
- PhD, Computer Vision — ETH Zürich (2017)
- BSc, Computer Engineering — Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2011)
Where has Dr. Elena Marquez worked previously?
- Senior Research Scientist, Google Research — Multimodal Perception · 2020 – 2024
- Research Engineer, Meta FAIR — Vision & Language · 2017 – 2020
- Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · 2016
What has Dr. Elena Marquez published?
- Scaling Multimodal Recognition to Long-Tail Food Categories — CVPR, 2023
- Reproducible Evaluation Protocols for Visual Recognition — NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks, 2022
- Cross-Cultural Bias in Food Image Classifiers — FAccT, 2021
What food tracking topics does Dr. Elena Marquez research?
Long-tail dataset evaluation, multimodal grounding, reproducible ML benchmarks.
