Diego Lozano
PHD Student at ELLIS Alicante Foundation
Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolDiego Lozano is a PhD student at ELLIS Alicante focused on the safety and security of multimodal large language models, bringing nine years of hands-on experience in NLP and machine learning. He blends rigorous academic training from TUM and Universidad de Burgos—with top thesis grades—with practical industry work as an NLP engineer and data scientist on information retrieval and QA systems. Diego contributes to embedded IoT firmware (notably enhancements to the InfiniTime Pinetime smartwatch) showing a comfort with low-level C++ and real-world device constraints in addition to large-model research. As an organizer for Munich🥨NLP he helps connect research and practitioner communities through talks and meetups, reflecting a commitment to knowledge exchange. His trajectory reflects a focus on ethical, safety-aware technology development and a rare cross-domain fluency spanning embedded systems to multimodal LLM safety.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Engineering, 9.18/10 | Thesis Grade: 10/10 with honors, BSc, Computer Engineering, 9.18/10 | Thesis Grade: 10/10 with honors at Universidad de BurgosMSc, Informatics - Focus on NLP, 1.3 | Thesis Grade: 1.0, MSc, Informatics - Focus on NLP, 1.3 | Thesis Grade: 1.0 at Technical University of MunichExchange Student - BSc Mobile Systems Engineering, Exchange Student - BSc Mobile Systems Engineering at 단국대학교
Spanish, English, German
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
freertos10
iot10
smartwatch10
embedded10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
bluetooth-low-energy10
nrf5210
nlp6
marshmallow6
flask6
huggingface-transformers6
huggingface6
python6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Firmware for Pinetime smartwatch written in C++ and based on FreeRTOS
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the firmware of the Pinetime smartwatch, developing features and making modifications to the display and settings. Their work involved implementing an Infineat watch face, including its associated BLE controller integration and color customization options. The user also introduced a CheckboxList screen and addressed various UI adjustments and bug fixes related to the watch face.
nrf52cppfirmwarebazelpinetime-smartwatch
dmlls/jizt-tfg
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:187 commits, 272 pushes, 32 branches in 4 months
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