Antonio Santos da Silva is an external PhD student in Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. He is currently a research assistant at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL) in Germany. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, which he obtained in 2021, and a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, which he completed in 2018. His current research interests include topics such as Communications Beyond 5G, V2X communication systems, cooperative perception, and autonomous vehicles.