AUGUSTO DA SILVA, FELIPE was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1986. He received an Engineer's degree in Computer Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in 2009 and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in 2014. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate on Functional Safety with Cadence Design Systems and the Delft University of Technology. As a researcher in academia, he contributed to research projects targeting mechanisms to overcome the effects of radiation faults at On-Board Computers for Space applications. Also, he has six years of experience working in the Aerospace and Defense industry as a Safety-Critical Embedded Systems Engineer. Nowadays, as part of the Cadence System Design Enablement team, he supports Automotive customers on the diverse requirements of Hardware Functional Safety verification targeting ISO 26262 compliance.