About Me

I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 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, and visited the Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (SAIL) for around 2 years during my PhD. I obtained my BSc in 2007 at the University Centre of Pará, in my hometown (Belém), Brazil.

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