Dr. Leonardo Sousa

Biography

Leonardo Sousa is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley location. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His academic journey includes an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Goiás and a B.S. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Mato Grosso. Leonardo's main research interests lie in areas such as Code Smells, Design Problems, Refactoring, Software Architecture, Software Testing, Empirical Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. He has published in numerous prestigious papers and journals and has a strong reputation within the Software Engineering field, participating in top international academic conferences such as FSE (ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering) and ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering). Alongside his academic pursuits, Leonardo has gained real-world software development experience, having collaborated on innovative projects aimed at societal benefits, including the VazaZika platform, which assists in the surveillance and detection of dengue-carrying mosquitoes outbreaks. He has also contributed to creating a new platform currently utilized in high-risk areas, allowing users to report mosquito breeding sites effectively.

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