Felipe R. Monteiro

Senior Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning Group at AWS

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I’m a Senior Applied Scientist at the Automated Reasoning Group at AWS. My research combines automated reasoning and neuro-symbolic AI to improve LLM-agent reliability, with soundness as the north star. I spent the earlier part of my career building model checkers and verifiers for C, C++, and Rust — tools like CBMC, ESBMC, and Kani — and that foundation in formal methods now shapes how I think about making AI agents trustworthy.

news

Jul 26, 2026 Attending FLoC 2026 with the rest of the Automated Reasoning Group gang.
Jul 01, 2026 Kani paper accepted at the Industry Showcase track at ASE 2026 (41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering).
Jun 12, 2026 Promoted to Senior Applied Scientist :tada:
Jun 12, 2026 Verifying the Rust Standard Library paper available in the proceedings of NFM 2026.

selected publications

  1. NFM
    Verifying the Rust Standard Library
    Byron Cook, Remi Delmas, Zyad Hassan, and 9 more authors
    In NASA Formal Methods: 18th International Symposium, NFM 2026, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 5–7, 2026, Proceedings, 2026
  2. arXiv
    Kani: A Model Checker for Rust
    Rémi Delmas, Zyad Hassan, Qinheping Hu, and 9 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01504, 2026
  3. STVR
    Model Checking C++ Programs
    Felipe R. Monteiro, Mikhail R. Gadelha, and Lucas C. Cordeiro
    Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 2022
  4. ICSE
    Code-Level Model Checking in the Software Development Workflow
    Nathan Chong, Byron Cook, Konstantinos Kallas, and 6 more authors
    In 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2020
  5. ASE
    ESBMC 5.0: An Industrial-Strength C Model Checker
    Mikhail R. Gadelha, Felipe R. Monteiro, Jeremy Morse, and 3 more authors
    In 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2018
  6. SCP
    ESBMC-GPU: A Context-Bounded Model Checking Tool to Verify CUDA Programs
    Felipe R. Monteiro, Erickson H. Alves, Isabela Silva, and 3 more authors
    Science of Computer Programming, 2018