Distinguished Paper Award
CHASE 2026
“Governance in Practice: How Open Source Projects Define and Document Roles.”
Awards & Honors
Last update: August 2026
Research Recognition
Distinguished Paper Award
CHASE 2025
“The Multifaceted Nature of Mentoring in OSS: Strategies, Qualities, and Ideal Outcomes.”
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
ICSE 2023
“Do I Belong? Modeling Sense of Virtual Community Among Linux Kernel Contributors.”
Best Paper Award
CONVERSATIONS 2023
“Anticipating User Needs: Insights from Design Fiction on Conversational Agents for Computational Thinking.”
Best Paper Award
ICSE SEIS 2022
“An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges Faced by Women in the Software Industry: A Case Study.”
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
ICSME 2020
“Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Projects.”
Best Paper Award
OpenSym 2020
“Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How Do Mentors Handle It?”
Nomination
Best Paper, HICSS-48
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Best Paper Award
WBMA 2013
Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods.
Second Best Paper
SBSC 2012
Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems.
Nomination
Best Paper, CSCL 2005
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference.
Nomination
Best Paper, SBIE 2003
Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education.
Mentoring, Teaching & Service
Student Recognition
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award
Co-advisor of award recipient Bianca Trinkenreich.
Nomination
RCA Award for Graduate Research Mentorship
Northern Arizona University.
Mentorship Award
Distinguished Mentorship Award
College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, Northern Arizona University.
Nomination
RCA Award for Graduate Research Mentorship
Northern Arizona University.
Nomination
Distinguished Mentorship Award
College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, Northern Arizona University.
Distinguished Service Award
ICSME 2020
For service as Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair.
Teaching Recognition
Honored Lecturer
University of Vila Velha graduating class.
Teaching Recognition
Honored Lecturer
UniCarioca University graduating class.
Professional Honors
CNPq Productivity Research Fellow
Three consecutive three-year fellowship periods from the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development.
IEEE Senior Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
ACM Senior Member
Association for Computing Machinery.
“Livre Docente”
Title from the University of São Paulo and promotion to Associate Professor.
Innovation & Broader Recognition
Honorable Mention
USP Knowledge Olympics
Smart Audio City Guide project.
Third Place
Imagine Cup Brazil
Smart Audio City Guide project.
Cultural Recognition
Brazilian Ministry of Culture
Support stamp for the Arquigrafia project.
Third Place
Jabuti National Literature Prize
For the book Sistemas Colaborativos (Collaborative Systems), to which I contributed three chapters.
First Place
University of São Paulo Innovation Olympics
Arquigrafia project.
Earlier academic distinctions
- 2002: First place in the Ph.D. entrance selection process at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1999: First place in Brazil’s National Exam of Computer Engineering, with a score of 98%.
- 1995: Third place in the entrance exam for the B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Espírito Santo.
- 1994: Sixth place in the Espírito Santo State Mathematics Olympiad.
- 1991: First place among 8,000 candidates in the entrance examination for the Technical School of Espírito Santo.
