Filipe Azevedo has received his MSc. degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (IST-UL), Portugal, in 2020, with an M.Sc. thesis entitled “Evaluating value-wise poison values for the LLVM compiler”, where he achieved a grade of 18 out of 20. His master's training consolidated a strong foundation in machine learning, algorithms and programming, establishing the basis for a research career at applied artificial intelligence (AI). After some years in industry, in 2024 he returned to the academia to pursue his PhD. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same institution (IST-UL), on the topic of analog integrated circuit (IC) design automation assisted by state-of-the-art AI techniques, merging his solid background on software development with a complex real-world engineering application. Additionally, he is currently a researcher affiliated with Instituto de Telecomunicações, incorporating the Integrated Circuits Group (ICG-Lx). Since starting his Ph.D., he has been involved in 11 scientific publications, including 6 international conference articles. From these he would like to highlight a paper at the renowned Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025 (rank A in CORE/EDA rankings), the flagship conference on electronic design automation, where he acted as a first author and major developer. Additionally, from the 3 journal articles that he has been involved, one of them, as first author and major developed, has been recently published in the high-impact factor (7.5) Expert Systems with Applications journal (Q1 in Scimago Journal Ranking in the AI, Computer Science Applications, and also, Engineering). Finally, he has taken a decisive role in two full books already published by Springer, which addressed groundbreaking AI applications towards analog IC design automation, in collaboration with other colleagues from IST-UL. During this period, he has also co-supervised two M.Sc. students, all of them achieving scientific publications from the outcome of their Master’s works, and, has been involved as vowel member on the jury of three other M.Sc. thesis of students from the Shanghai University (China). So far, he has been engaged in two on-going scientific projects with national and international institutes and/companies, namely, GENERALISE project (funded by Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG, Switzerland), and ACTON (funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). These projects reflect a successful engagement with industry, reinforcing his capacity to translate research into technological innovation. Additionally, the candidate has delivered 4 oral presentations at major international conferences (including DAC and the International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design) and has provided a talk to B.Sc. students of IST-UL, covering the challenges of automating microelectronics design with sophisticated AI tools. Filipe Azevedo has been highly driven towards knowledge sharing with research Institutes and Universities around the globe, actively collaborating with colleagues from the Technical University of Munich (Germany), Gebze Technical University (Turkey) and Shanghai University (China), all of them with published or currently submitted scientific papers.