Miquel Sirera
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Open to collaboration · Boston, MA

Building resilient
distributed LLMs.

I'm Miquel — a PhD student at Northeastern working on large language models that survive node failures, run on the edge, and stay accurate under real-world constraints.

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Lab Genesys · Northeastern
Focus Distributed AI · Edge
Since 2024
Miquel Sirera

I work at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems. Models are getting larger; the devices that need to run them aren't. My research is about closing that gap — keeping inference fast, reliable, and accurate when the compute is spread across many nodes that can fail at any moment.

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What I'm working on.

Three threads, all aimed at making large models practical when compute is distributed, unreliable, or sitting on devices at the edge.

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Resilience for Distributed LLMs

Extending JARVIS, a framework that splits LLM layers across edge devices. We add peer-to-peer recovery and layer redundancy so the system keeps serving when nodes fail. Tested on Gemma-2B across 18 software-defined radios in the NSF Colosseum emulator and a 7-node Raspberry Pi cluster.

LLM inference Fault tolerance Edge AI
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02

Communication-aware DNN pruning

Training networks for distributed deployment so they need less inter-device communication while staying accurate. Pruning and placing neurons in CNNs and MLPs so they run well on the edge under mixed network conditions.

Model compression Networking
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03

Knowledge editing in LLMs

Looking at more efficient ways to update or correct specific facts and behaviors inside large language models — without full retraining, and without breaking everything else the model knows.

Model editing LLMs
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The path here.

From data science in Barcelona to distributed LLMs in Boston.

2024 — Present

PhD, Computer Engineering

Northeastern University · Boston

Distributed LLMs, edge AI, and resilient inference. Advised in the Genesys lab.

2023

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Genesys Lab, Northeastern · Boston

Bachelor's thesis on AI for wireless — signal classification with deep models. Hooked me on AI + wireless and started my path here.

2022

AI Engineer Intern

Abi Global Health · Remote

MLOps monitoring and ML model work for a global tele-health platform.

2019 — 2023

BSc, Data Science & Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Barcelona

GPA 8.89/10. Honors in Discrete Math & Logic, Mathematical Optimization, Search & Analysis of Information, and Advanced Topics of Data Science.

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Let's build something interesting.

Always happy to talk about distributed ML, edge inference, or how to make models survive the real world.

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