Awards & Honors
- 2026 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper — CHASE@ICSE 2026: “Governance in Practice: How Open Source Projects Define and Document Roles”
- 2026 NAU Award for Graduate Research Mentorship — Northern Arizona University Research and Creative Activity Awards
- 2025 NAU Award for Most Promising New Research Scholar — Northern Arizona University
- 2024 Best Paper Award — ESEM 2024: “ChatGPT application in Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering: an evaluation of its accuracy to support the selection activity”
- 2024 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award — awarded to Bianca Trinkenreich, my PhD advisee
- 2023 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper — ICSE 2023: “Do I Belong? Modeling Sense of Virtual Community Among Linux Kernel Contributors”
- 2023 Best Paper Award — CONVERSATIONS 2023: “Anticipating User Needs: Insights from Design Fiction on Conversational Agents for Computational Thinking”
- 2023 Distinguished Reviewer Award — ICSE 2023
- 2022 Best Paper Award — ICSE-SEIS 2022: “An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges Faced by Women in the Software Industry: A Case Study”
- 2021 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper — ICSE 2021: “What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects?”
- 2021–2022 Brazilian Research Productivity Fellowship (PQ)
- 2020 IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper — ICSME 2020: “Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Projects”
- 2020 Best Paper Award — OpenSym 2020: “Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How Do Mentors Handle It?”
- 2020 Honorable Mention — CSCW 2020: “Hidden Figures: Roles and Pathways of Successful OSS Contributors”
- 2019 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper — ICSE-SEET 2019: “Training software engineers using open-source software: the students' perspective”
- 2018 Best Paper Award — SBES 2018: “An empirical study on task documentation in software crowdsourcing: the case of the topcoder platform”
Keynotes, Talks & Panels
- 2026 Keynote, ICSE 2026 Doctoral Symposium (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- 2026 Panelist, ICSE 2026 Panels and Special Sessions: “SE.next: Raising the Agentic Engineer” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- 2026 Invited talks, GiraEuropa 2026, university seminar tour (Italy & Switzerland)
- 2025 Talk, FOSSY 2025, Science of Community track: “Lessons from a Decade of Open Source Sustainability Research” (Portland, OR, USA)
- 2025 Panelist, BotSE 2025 (Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering) at ICSE 2025 (Ottawa, Canada)
- 2024 Keynote, WBots 2024 (Workshop sobre Bots na Engenharia de Software) at CBSoft 2024 (Curitiba, Brazil)
- 2024 Invited talk, FSE 2024 New Faculty Symposium: “Building Bridges for Sustainable Research” (Porto de Galinhas, Brazil)
- 2024 Panelist, FSE 2024 Doctoral Symposium: “Life During PhD” (Porto de Galinhas, Brazil)
- 2023 Keynote, Latin American School of Software Engineering (ELA-ES 2023) at CBSoft 2023, on research methods in empirical software engineering (Campo Grande, Brazil)
- 2019 Invited talk, BRIDGES 2019 (International Workshop on BRIdging Divides with Globally Engineered Software): “Diversity and Social Aspects of Open Source Software Communities” (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Service & Leadership
Conference organization
- General Chair — Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026); ICSME 2024; CHASE 2023
- General Co-Chair — International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2024)
- Area Chair, Human Aspects — ICSE 2025
- Program Co-Chair — SBES 2024; OSS 2022; ICSSP 2022; ICGSE 2020
- Earlier roles — Publicity Chair ICGSE 2017; Proceedings Chair ICGSE 2016, SBCARS 2016
Editorial & reviewing
- Editorial Boards — Empirical Software Engineering (since 2022); Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (since 2021)
- Program committees — ICSE, ICSE-NIER, MSR, CSCW, EASE, ICSME, OSS, ICGSE
- Reviewer — TSE, TOSEM, EMSE, IST, JSS, ACM Computing Surveys; Distinguished Reviewer Award, ICSE 2023
Institutional & community
- Associate Director for Graduate Programs and Academic Affairs — SICCS, NAU
- Chaired the proposal committee for NAU's BS in Artificial Intelligence (starts Fall 2026)
- Education Committee, Brazilian Computer Society (2015–2017)