Honors, Awards & Grants

⭐ Distinguished Reviewer

Distinguished Reviewer Award

Artifact Evaluation — ICSE 2026

2026 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Certificate

🏆 Best Paper

SBES 2025

Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

"Diversity Matters: Perceived Inclusion and Discrimination by Brazilian Tech Professionals"

2025 · Recife, Brazil Certificate

🏆 Distinguished Artifact

CBSoft 2025

Brazilian Conference on Software: Practice and Theory

"404: Civility Not Found? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Small Language Models in Detecting Incivility in GitHub Conversations"

2025 · Recife, Brazil Certificate

🏆 Best Paper

SBCARS 2022

Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse

"How do trivial refactorings affect classification prediction models?"

2022 · Uberlândia, Brazil Certificate

🥈 2nd Best Paper

SBCARS 2021

Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse

"Do Critical Components Smell Bad? An Empirical Study with Component-based Software Product Lines"

2021 · Joinville, Brazil

🏆 Best Paper

ELA-ES 2016

3rd Latin-American School on Software Engineering

2016 · Natal, Brazil Certificate

🥇 1st Place

CTCCSI 2026

VIII Undergraduate Thesis Contest in Information Systems (SBSI)

"Data Privacy in Software Practice: Brazilian Developers' Perspectives"

2026 · Vitória, Brazil Certificate

🥇 1st Place

CTD-ES 2025

Software Engineering Doctoral & Master Theses Competition (CBSoft)

"Measuring Trivial and Non-Trivial Refactoring: A Predictive Analysis and Index Proposal (Co-Advisor)"

2025 · Recife, Brazil Certificate

🥈 2nd Place

CTICQS 2025

Software Quality Scientific Initiation Contest (SBQS)

"Exploring Code Clone Behavior in Modern Code Review"

2025 · São José dos Campos, Brazil Certificate

🥉 3rd Place

CTIC-ES 2025

6th Undergraduate Research Competition at SBES (CBSoft)

"Unconscious Bias and Perceived Discrimination by Tech Professionals in Brazil"

2025 · Recife, Brazil Certificate

💰 Scholarship

FUNCAP Research Productivity Grant (BPI)

"SP4Dev: Segurança e Privacidade em Software: Estratégias de Automação e Práticas de Desenvolvimento"

2025 – Present

💰 Scholarship

FUNCAP Research Productivity Grant (BPI)

"Modernização de Sistemas Legados: Suporte (Semi-)Automatizado e Práticas de Desenvolvimento"

2023 – 2024

🎖️ Travel Grant

SIGSOFT CAPS Award

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2019 · ICSE 2019

💰 Scholarship

CNPq Postdoctoral Fellowship Abroad

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

2026 – Present

💰 Scholarship

CNPq Grant

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

2019 · PhD Support

💰 Scholarship

CAPES Grant

Brazilian Federal Agency for Postgraduate Education

2017 · MSc Support

💰 Scholarship

CAPES Grant

Brazilian Federal Agency for Postgraduate Education

2014 · BSc Exchange

🎓 Volunteer

ICSE 2020

International Conference on Software Engineering

2020 · Virtual

🎓 Volunteer

ICSA 2020

International Conference on Software Architecture

2020 · Salvador, Brazil

🎓 Volunteer

ICSE 2018

International Conference on Software Engineering

2018 · Gothenburg, Sweden