Honors, Awards and Grants

A selection of honors and awards follows. Click on each award title to see a summary.

  • SBQS 2024
    Distinction as the second best Brazilian Ph.D thesis in the area of Software Quality in 2023.
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    The award was received at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2024). The SBQS is the leading Brazilian forum dedicated exclusively to Software Quality. This was made possible specially by the guidance of my advisor, Prof. Dr. Marcos Kalinowski, the support of my family and colleagues from our lab.
  • CBSoft 2024
    Distinction as the best Software Engineering Ph.D thesis in Brazil in 2023.
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    Distinction as the best Software Engineering Ph.D thesis in Brazil in 2023. The award was received at the Brazilian Software Congress (CBSoft 2024) in Curitiba, Brazil. This was made possible by the guidance of my advisor, Prof. Dr. Marcos Kalinowski, the support of my family and colleagues from the Exacta Software Lab.
  • CAIN 2024
    Best Paper Award
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    Our paper "Investigating the Impact of Solid Design Principles on Machine Learning Code Understanding" won the Best Paper Award (ACM Distinguished Paper Award) at CAIN: International Conference on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI in Lisbon, Portugal. The pre-print version of this paper can be found here.
  • ESEM 2021
    Distinguished Service Award at ESEM 2021
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    The award was received at the 15th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) for the distinguished service as virtualization co-chair. ESEM is the premier empirical software engineering and measurement conference.
  • SBQS 2020
    Distinction as the second best Brazilian M.Sc Dissertation in the area of Software Quality in 2019.
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    The award was received at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2020). The SBQS is the leading Brazilian forum dedicated exclusively to Software Quality. This was made possible specially by the guidance of my advisor, Prof. Dr. Marcos Kalinowski, the support of my family and colleagues from our lab.
  • Scholarship Grant 2019
    CNPq's Scholarship Grant
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    I received a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) to support my PhD research.
  • RE 2019
    Candidate for Best Paper Award
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    Our paper "An Approach for Reviewing Security-Related Aspects in Agile Requirements Specifications of Web Applications" was indicated as best research paper candidate of RE 2019, held in Jeju Island, South Korea. The published version of this paper can be found here.
  • Scholarship Grant 2017
    CAPES's Scholarship Grant
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    I received a scholarship from the Brazilian Federal Agency for Postgraduate Education (CAPES) to support my M.Sc. research.