Román Cárdenas is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). In 2023, he obtained a Ph.D. in Electronic Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Cotutelle modality at UPM and Carleton University (CU), Canada. While pursuing this Ph.D. degree, the Ministry of Universities (Spain) awarded him an FPU grant in 2020 and a three-month FPU mobility grant to CU in 2021. In 2023, he joined the RISC-V team of the Rust Embedded working group, which aims to provide robust and comprehensive tools to develop embedded systems using the Rust programming language. His research interests include modeling and simulation-based systems engineering with applications in edge computing and the IoT and real-time systems