Daniel Oliveira is a PhD candidate and an R&D fellow at Centro ALGORITMI at the University of Minho. Daniel obtained both his Bachelors and Masters in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Minho (Portugal). Having specialized in the field of embedded systems, he carried out his Master's Thesis under the supervision of assistant professor Dr. Sandro Pinto, focusing on top-of-the-line security extensions for Arm microprocessors, namely Arm TrustZone technology. After finishing his Master, Daniel was invited to enrol in two major R&D projects – HMIExcell Project and InnovCar Program, partnerships between University of Minho and Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, focusing on the leading edge of the autonomous driving and HMI technologies. He started as a developer and system designer, and later he was invited to be head of development. His research interests include operating systems, computer architectures, real-time systems, embedded security for cyber-physical and IoT-based systems, and automotive front-end systems. Nowadays his work relies on finishing his PhD program, which proposes a novel mixed-criticality architecture for low-end IoT devices.