I got my PhD from Federal University of Pernambuco in 2007. During my PhD, I went through an internship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2009, I am an associate professor in computer science faculty at Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG).

Our research group proposed a number of techniques to make program evolution safer. Our group published papers in the most important conferences (ICSE, FSE, ICSME, SBES) and journals (TSE, EMSE, IST, JSS, TOSEM). Our research group has been honored with over 25 national and international awards. See more details in my DBLP and Google Scholar profiles.

Since 2008, I coordinate a project that organize programming contests (see The Paraiba State Olympiad in Informatics), and training camps for elementary, high school, and undergraduate students in our state. UFCG students won 70+ awards in national and international programming contests (see some of them at here). I was the recipient of the ICPC coach award in 2017.