Awards & Honors

Last update: October 2026

Research Recognition

Distinguished Paper Award

CHASE 2026

“Governance in Practice: How Open Source Projects Define and Document Roles.”

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Distinguished Paper Award

CHASE 2025

“The Multifaceted Nature of Mentoring in OSS: Strategies, Qualities, and Ideal Outcomes.”

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ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

ICSE 2023

“Do I Belong? Modeling Sense of Virtual Community Among Linux Kernel Contributors.”

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Best Paper Award

CONVERSATIONS 2023

“Anticipating User Needs: Insights from Design Fiction on Conversational Agents for Computational Thinking.”

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Best Paper Award

ICSE SEIS 2022

“An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges Faced by Women in the Software Industry: A Case Study.”

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IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

ICSME 2020

“Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Projects.”

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Best Paper Award

OpenSym 2020

“Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How Do Mentors Handle It?”

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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

2010-2019

CNPq Productivity Research Fellow

Three consecutive three-year fellowship periods from the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

2017

IEEE Senior Member

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

2017

ACM Senior Member

Association for Computing Machinery.

2013

“Livre Docente”

Post-Ph.D. habilitation for senior academic rank in Brazil, awarded by the University of São Paulo.

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.