About Me
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) at the Information Science Department of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Before being a Lecturer, I worked as a Postdoctoral fellow in the Software Reengineering Research Group at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Ying Zou. My main research field is Empirical Software Engineering. I use methodologies such as machine learning, statistics and qualitative methods (e.g., surveys and interviews) to better understand the software development phenomena. The goal of my research is to augment the body of knowledge of the Software Engineering field and ultimately optimize the practice of software development. I obtained my MSc (2013) and PhD (2017) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, under the supervision of Prof. Uirá Kulesza. I was also supervised by Prof. Ahmed E. Hassan when I visited the Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (SAIL) for more than 2 years in my PhD. I obtained my BSc in 2007 at the University Centre of Pará, in my hometown (Belém), Brazil.
Publications
An Empirical Study of the Long Duration of Continuous Integration Builds
Improving the Pull Requests Review Process Using Learning-to-rank Algorithms
Predicting Co-Changes between Functionality Specifications and Source Code in Behavior Driven Development
An Empirical Study on the Issue Reports with Questions Raised during the Issue Resolving Process
The Impact of Rapid Release Cycles on the Integration Delay of Fixed Issues
An Empirical Study of the Integration Time of Fixed Issues
Winning the App Production Rally
Studying the impact of adopting continuous integration on the delivery time of pull requests
The Impact of Refactoring Changes on the SZZ Algorithm: An Empirical Study
An Automatic Approach for Transforming IoT Applications to RESTful Services on the Cloud
A Framework to Extract Oersonalized Behavioural Patterns Of User's IoT Devices Data
A Framework for Evaluating the Results of the SZZ Approach for Identifying Bug-Introducing Changes
How does the Shift to GitHub Impact Project Collaboration?
Studying the Impact of Switching to a Rapid Release Cycle on Integration Delay of Addressed Issues - An Empirical Study of the Mozilla Firefox Project
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper award
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