Curriculum Vitae

He is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Systems at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP), and a visiting researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He earned his PhD in Science, specializing in Software Engineering, from ICMC/USP. He also holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR). His undergraduate degree is in Systems Analysis and Development, also from UTFPR, where he received awards for academic excellence, including Best Student from the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), as well as Best Student in his class and in his academic year from UTFPR. He is associated with the Graduate Program in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics (PPG-CCMC) at ICMC/USP and is a member of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC) at VU Amsterdam, the Software Engineering Laboratory (LabES), and the Software Architecture Research Group at ICMC/USP. He contributes actively to the Software Engineering community as a reviewer and Program Committee member for national and international conferences (ICSE, EASE, ESEM, FSE, and SBES), and for scientific journals (e.g., JSS, IST, TOSEM, CSI, IPM). His primary research area is Evidence-Based Software Engineering (EBSE), with an emphasis on improving the process of gathering evidence from the scientific literature and incorporating the notion of sustainability into the context of Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs).

Research Interests

• Evidence-Based Software Engineering
• Systematic Literature Reviews
• Sustainable Systematic Literature Reviews
• Secondary Studies

Research Projects

• 2023 - Present - SPIRA-BM: Biomarkers for respiratory conditions on mobile devices by AI-powered audio analysis
• 2017 - 2023 - Technologies and solutions to enable the cloud of things paradigm

Education

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2025
  • Project: A Framework for Sustainability in Systematic Literature Reviews
  • Advisor: Dra. Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
  • Co-advisor: Dra. Patricia Lago
  • Fellowship: FAPESP
  • Keywords: Systematic Literature Review, Software Engineering, Sustainability
  • Major Area: Exact and Earth Sciences
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2023
  • Dissertation: A Framework for Economic Sustainability in Systematic Literature Reviews
  • Advisor: Dra. Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
  • Scholarship: FAPESP
  • Keywords: Systematic Literature Review, Software Engineering, Sustainability
  • Major Area: Exact and Earth Sciences
• M.S. in Informatics (Professional), Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil, 2018
  • Thesis: Automatic Generation of Graphical Abstracts Using Natural Language Processing
  • Advisor: Dra. Érica Ferreira de Souza
  • Co-Advisor: Dra. Katia Romero Felizardo Scannavino
  • Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Concept Maps, Graphical Abstracts, Software Engineering, Systematic Literature Review
  • Major Area: Exact and Earth Sciences
• B.S. in Analysis and Systems Development, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil, 2015
  • Capstone Project: Workup: Physical Activity and Body Fat Index Control App for Mobile Devices
  • Advisor: Henrique Yoshikazu Shishido
• B.S. in Business Administration, State University of Northern Paraná (UENP), Brazil, 2011
  • Capstone Project: Fast Food Franchises – Market Feasibility in Cornélio Procópio, PR
  • Advisor: Luiz Eduardo de Araujo

Work Experience

• July 2025 – present: Post-Doctoral Researcher
  • Organization: FAPESP, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties included: Researching the sustainability of systematic literature reviews, contributing innovative concepts to secondary studies in software engineering.
• June 2023 – 2025: Computer Science Professor
  • Organization: SENAI, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties include: Teaching programming languages such as Java and Python, exploring Industry 4.0 technologies (IoT, Home and Industrial Automation, AI, Data Science).
• December 2022 – June 2023: Java Developer
  • Organization: DB1 Group, Remote
  • Duties included: Back-end maintenance for mobile and web applications, developing new features for financial transactions, and building customer support tools integrating multiple marketplaces.
• July 2020 – December 2022: Ph.D. Researcher
  • Organization: FAPESP, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties included: Researching software sustainability within systematic literature reviews, contributing innovative concepts to secondary studies in software engineering.
• January 2019 – August 2020: Ph.D. Researcher
  • Organization: CAPES, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties included: Investigating software sustainability and its applications in secondary studies.
• July 2015 – February 2019: IT Technician
  • Organization: Prefeitura Municipal de Sertaneja, Sertaneja, Paraná, Brazil
  • Duties included: Maintaining public service computers and networks, providing user training, and offering technical support.
• December 2014 – July 2015: Java Developer
  • Organization: Atos, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
  • Duties included: Debugging and maintaining a call center system, collaborating with international teams using Agile methodology, and enhancing Java skills in SOA, JSF, JPA, and JSP.
• February 2008 – December 2014: IT Instructor
  • Organization: Prefeitura Municipal de Sertaneja, Sertaneja, Paraná, Brazil
  • Duties included: Teaching basic computer concepts (OS, text editors, internet) to youth, adults, and the elderly.

Skills

• As a researcher:
  • Scientific Writing
  • Empirical Experimentation in Software Engineering
  • Systematic Reviews
• As a developer:
  • Java 8+
  • Spring Framework
  • Microservice
  • Software Architectures (clean, MVC)
  • Unit Testing (JUnit, Mockito)
  • SOAP e REST
  • JPA & ORM (Hibernate)
  • Project versioning (Git)
  • Relational database and SQL
  • Messagery
  • Docker
  • Maven
  • Front-End (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
  • Linux
  • Agile Methods

Resources

• (https://github.com/CSM-Research) [Research Repository with supplementaty materials and replication kits]
• (https://github.com/CSM-Research) [Applications Repository]

Service

Reviewer of the following journals

1. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (2026)
2. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) (2026)
3. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD) (2025)
4. SoftwareX (2025)
5. Computer Standards & Interfaces (CSI) (2025)
6. Information Processing and Management (IPM) (2026)
7. Information and Software Technology (IST) (2024)
8. Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (2024)

Reviewer of the following conferences and symposia

1. International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 2026.
2. XXIX Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE), 2026.
3. Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026.
4. 10th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS) @ ICSE, 2026.
5. 9th International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), 2026.
6. 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026.
7. 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026.
8. 2nd International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf), 2025.
9. XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Componentes, Arquiteturas e Reuso de Software (SBCARS), 2025.
10. 37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS), 2025.
11. XXXIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), Trilha de Pesquisa, 2025.
12. LII Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (SEMISH), Trilha de Pesquisa, 2025.
13. International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025.
14. XXIX International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 2025.
15. XXXVI Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2024.
16. XLVII IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), New Ideas and Emergent Results, 2024.
17. XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Componentes, Arquiteturas e Reuso de Software (SBCARS), 2024.
18. XXV Conferência Ibero-Americana de Engenharia de Software (CIbSE), 2022.
19. XXXVI Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), Trilha de Pesquisa, 2022.
20. XLII Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (SEMISH), Trilha de Pesquisa, 2022.
21. XXVI Simpósio Brasileiro de Componentes, Arquiteturas e Reutilização de Software (SBCARS), 2022.
22. XIX Congresso Brasileiro de Informática em Saúde (CBIS), 2022.
23. XXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Saúde (SBIS), 2021.
24. XXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), Trilha de Ideias Inovadoras e Resultados Emergentes, 2021.
25. XXIV Conferência Ibero-Americana de Engenharia de Software (CIbSE), Trilha de Engenharia de Software Experimental, 2021.
26. XL Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (SEMISH), Trilha de Pesquisa, 2020.
27. XXXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES), Trilha de Ferramentas, 2020.
28. XXX Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE), Trilha de Pesquisa, 2019.

PC Member

1. 19th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Emerging Results and Vision Track, 2025
2. LII Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (SEMISH), 2025
3. ECSA 2026 - 20th European Conference on Software Architecture, Chair de Sustentabilidade, 2026
4. SEMISH 2026 - Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware, Membro de Comitê, 2026
5. GREENS 2026 - 10th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software, Membro de Comitê, 2026
6. ESEM 2025 - 19th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Membro de Comitê, 2025
7. SEMISH 2025 - Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware, Membro de Comitê, 2025

Awards

1. 2024 - Selected among the 11 best projects of INOVA SENAI at the national level, SENAI Nacional - National Service for Industrial Learning.
2. 2022 - Selected as one of the best papers at the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’22) and invited to extend the work for a Special Issue in the journal Computing (Springer, ISSN: 1436-5057).
3. 2017 - Outstanding Alumnus of 2016, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR) and Cornélio Procópio Commercial and Business Association.
4. 2015 - Top student of the 22nd graduating class of Technology courses, 1st semester of 2015, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR).
5. 2015 - Distinguished student of the 2015/01 class in the System Analysis and Development program, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazilian Computer Society.
6. 2014 - 2nd place in the 1st UTFPR Undergraduate Thesis Competition, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR).

Publications

An Applied Approach for Integrating Legacy PLC-Based Systems into Industry 4.0 Environments using Low-Code Platforms

do Nascimento, E.V., dos Santos, V. & Aroca, R.V. An applied approach for integrating legacy PLC-based systems into Industry 4.0 environments using low-code platforms. Int J Adv Manuf Technol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-026-17921-0

Towards Architecting LLM-based Systems

Is my Dependency Sustainable? A Systematic Mapping on Open Source Software Sustainability

Fontes, G. S., dos Santos, V., & Nakagawa, E. Y. (2026, April 13). Is my dependency sustainable? A systematic mapping on open source software sustainability. In ICSE - Designing 2026 (Domain-specific Design & Theory Building track), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sustainable Systematic Literature Reviews

SANTOS, V.; IWAZAKI, A. Y.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; SOUZA, E. F.; NAKAGAWA, E. Y. (2024). "Sustainable Systematic Literature Reviews." Information and Software Technology, v.176, p.107551.

Inteligência Artificial Aplicada ao Marketing Digital: Um Mapeamento Sistemático da Literatura

MARINHO, L. V.; SANTOS, V. (2024). "Inteligência Artificial Aplicada ao Marketing Digital: Um Mapeamento Sistemático da Literatura." In: XXIV Congresso de Iniciação Científica UNICEP, São Carlos, Anais do XXIV Congresso de Iniciação Científica UNICEP, 2024.

Trends in Continuous Evaluation of Software Architectures

SOARES, RODRIGO C.; CAPILLA, RAFAEL; DOS SANTOS, VINICIUS; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. (2023). "Trends in Continuous Evaluation of Software Architectures." Computing, v.SI, p.1436-5057. Citações: 2.

Benefits and Challenges of a Graduate Course: An Experience Teaching Systematic Literature Review

IWAZAKI, ANDERSON Y.; DOS SANTOS, VINICIUS; FELIZARDO, KATIA R.; DE SOUZA, ERICA F.; VALENTIM, NATASHA M. C.; NAKAGAWA, ELISA Y. (2022). "Benefits and Challenges of a Graduate Course: An Experience Teaching Systematic Literature Review." In: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, p. 1.

Continuous Evaluation of Software Architectures: An Overview of the State of the Art

SOARES, R. C.; SANTOS, V.; NAKAGAWA, E. Y. (2022). "Continuous Evaluation of Software Architectures: An Overview of the State of the Art." In: ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Virtual Conference, 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

Towards Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews

SANTOS, V.; IWAZAKI, A. Y.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; SOUZA, E. F.; NAKAGAWA, E. Y. (2021). "Towards Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews." In: 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Bari, Italy, Proceedings of 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2021.

Using Open Information Extraction to Extract Relations: An Extended Systematic Mapping

SANTOS, V.; SILVA, P. R.; SOUZA, E. F.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; WATANABE, W. M.; CANDIDO JUNIOR, A.; MEINERZ, G. V.; ALUISIO, S. M.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L. (2021). "Using Open Information Extraction to Extract Relations: An Extended Systematic Mapping." In: Latin American Informatics Conference (CLEI), Costa Rica, Proceedings of Latin American Informatics Conference (CLEI), 2021.

Using Natural Language Processing to Build Graphical Abstracts to Be Used in Studies Selection Activity in Secondary Studies

SANTOS, V.; SOUZA, E. F.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; WATANABE, W. M.; CANDIDO JUNIOR, A.; ALUISIO, S. M.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L. (2021). "Using Natural Language Processing to Build Graphical Abstracts to Be Used in Studies Selection Activity in Secondary Studies." In: Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Palermo, Proceedings of Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2021.

CrowdSLR: A Tool to Support the Use of Crowdsourcing in Systematic Literature Reviews

SANTOS, V.; IWAZAKI, A. Y.; SOUZA, E. F.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L. (2021). "CrowdSLR: A Tool to Support the Use of Crowdsourcing in Systematic Literature Reviews." In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software, Joinville, Brasil, Anais do 35° Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software, 2021.

Extraction of Useful Information from Unstructured Data in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping

SILVA, P. R.; SANTOS, V.; SOUZA, E. F.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L. (2020). "Extraction of Useful Information from Unstructured Data in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping." In: Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering , Curitiba, Proceedings of Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering , 2020.

Conceptual Map Creation from Natural Language Processing: A Systematic Mapping Study

SANTOS, V.; SOUZA, E. F.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; WATANABE, W. M.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L. (2019). "Conceptual Map Creation from Natural Language Processing: A Systematic Mapping Study." Revista Brasileira de Informática na Educação, v.27, p.150-176.

A Tool for Automation of Knowledge Management Diagnostics in Software Development Companies

SANTOS, V.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L.; SOUZA, E. F. (2019). "A Tool for Automation of Knowledge Management Diagnostics in Software Development Companies." In: Conferência Brasileira de Software , Salvador, Proceedings of 10th Brazilian Conference on Software, 2019.

Concept Maps Construction Using Natural Language Processing to Support Studies Selection

SANTOS, V. (2018). "Concept Maps Construction Using Natural Language Processing to Support Studies Selection." In: Symposium On Applied Computing, Pau, França, Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Pau, France, 2018.

WorkUp: A Mobile Application to Support Health Guidelines

PEREIRA JUNIOR, FRANCISCO; YOSHIKAZU SHISHIDO, HENRIQUE; ELER, GABRIELLE JACKLIN; DOS SANTOS, VINICIUS. (2017). "WorkUp: A Mobile Application to Support Health Guidelines." In: 10th International Conference on Health Informatics, Porto, Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2017, p. 297.

Analysing the Use of Concept Maps in Computer Science: A Systematic Mapping Study

SANTOS, V.; VIJAYKUMAR, N. L.; SOUZA, E. F.; FELIZARDO, K. R.; WATANABE, W. M. (2017). "Analysing the Use of Concept Maps in Computer Science: A Systematic Mapping Study." Informatics in Education, v.16, p.257-288. Citações: 11|27.