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Madrid, Spain

Alberto Penas Díaz

IoT & Embedded Systems · AI Research

Computer Engineer with a strong foundation in firmware development, low-level systems programming and embedded hardware design. Active researcher in artificial intelligence with peer-reviewed work on large language model fine-tuning for clinical neuropsychology applications.

Work
2025NOW Madrid

Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA) · UC3M

PythonQLoRAPyTorchUnslothLLM fine-tuningRAGQdrant
2025NOW Madrid

Project Manager

Thinger.io

CC++MQTTLoRaWANNB-IoTOTAESP-32
20252025 Madrid

HPC Researcher — Number Theory & Supercomputation

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) · PNRG Group

C++MPIOpenMPHPCLinux
2023NOW Madrid

Private Tutor — C, POSIX & Systems Programming

Self-employed

CPOSIXSystems ProgrammingGDBValgrind
Lab
2024 embedded

LoRa-Based Distributed Messaging System

A fully distributed, end-to-end encrypted messaging system operating over LoRa (EU-868 MHz band) with no relia…

2023 systems

RISC-V Command Shell

A fully functional concurrent Unix shell implemented in C targeting the RISC-V (RV32I) ISA. Validates the inte…

2023 systems

P2P File Sharing System

A hybrid client-server and peer-to-peer file transfer system using TCP/IP sockets for data transfer and ONC-RP…

2023 systems

Viper Compiler

A complete compiler pipeline for Viper, a statically-typed language with Python-inspired syntax. Built from sc…

2022 tooling

Graphdisplay

Published open-source Python package on PyPI providing interactive visualisation of graph data structures and …

Signal

Publications

2026

Estimating MMSE Scores from Conversational Transcripts Using Quantized Large Language Models

IWINAC 2026 — Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Accepted oral presentation

Education

2026

Master of Science — Computer Science and Technology

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)

Admitted. Máster Universitario en Ciencia y Tecnología Informática; commencing September 2026.

2026

Bachelor of Science — Computer Science Engineering

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)

Honours in Operating Systems, RISC-V Computer Structures, Project Management, Cryptography, Data Structures & Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence.

Recognition

2024

Best Final Year Project

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Award for outstanding final year engineering project.

2023

Honourable Mention — Systems Track

Example Conference

Recognised for exceptional poster presentation on RTOS design.

2024

Letter of Recommendation

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Prof. Example Name, Department of Computer Architecture

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