Hugo Guarín Villamizar

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Honors, Awards and Grants

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

  • SQD 2025
    Best Paper Award.
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    The Industrial Experience Best Paper Award was received at the International Conference on Software Quality (SQD) in Munich, Germnay. This work is the result of several industry-academia collaboration projects conducted by the ExACTa Initiative at PUC-Rio in partnership with major Brazilian companies. The pre-print version of this paper can be found here.
  • SBES 2024
    Best Software Engineering Ph.D thesis in Brazil in 2023.
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    Best Software Engineering Ph.D thesis in Brazil in 2023. The award was received at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 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.
  • SBES 2024
    Best Paper Award
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    Our paper "Industrial Practices of Requirements Engineering for ML-Enabled Systems in Brazil" received a distinguished paper award at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2024) in Curitiba, Brazil. The pre-print version of this paper can be found here.
  • SBQS 2024
    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.
  • 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
    Service Award
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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
    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.