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Leonardo da Silva Sousa is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley location. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and has earned both an MSc and a BSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Goiás and the Federal University of Mato Grosso, respectively. His primary research interests include code smells, design problems, refactoring, software architecture, software testing, empirical software engineering, and machine learning. Sousa has published extensively in prestigious journals and international conferences, including the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering and the International Conference on Software Engineering. He has also worked on innovative projects like the VazaZika platform, aimed at enhancing the surveillance and detection of dengue-carrying mosquitoes, thus contributing to public health efforts. His work combines rigorous academic research with practical software development experience, further establishing his strong reputation in the field of software engineering.
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