Some research interests:
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering Education
  • Mining Software Repositories
  • AI-Assited Software Engineering
  • OSS communities
  • Software Evolution
  • Bots/chatbots
  • CSCW
  • Welcome to My Website!

    I am a Professor at the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and a member of the Computer Science Graduate Program at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. A more formal bio can be found on the career page.

    I research Human Aspects of Software Engineering and Software Engineering Education (see more details on the Research page). Currently, I am working on the analysis and support of open-source software (OSS) development communities and collaborative systems in general.

    I have been serving on the program committee of important conferences, including ICSE, FSE, MSR, and CSCW. I am one of the general organizers of ICSME 2024 and has been PC Chair/Co-Chair of several events, such as BotSE, IWESEP, SBES, ICGSE, etc.


    Latest news/awards:
    • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023)
    • Best paper award at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), Software Engineering in Society (SEIS) track
    • Promotion to Full Professor at NAU (2022)
    • Distinguished Mentorship Award, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, Northern Arizona University (2021)
    • IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (2020)
    • Distinguished Service Award at the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution for the distinguished service as Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair (2020)