Wesley K. G. Assuncao

Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2023-...: Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science - North Carolina State University (NC State), USA
2021-2023: Universitätsassistent (University Assistant / Senior Researcher)
Institute of Software Systems Engineering - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU), Austria
2019-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher
Informatics Department - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil
2013-2021: Assistant/Associate Professor (Civil Servant)
Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR-Toledo), Brazil
2007-2012: Partial-Time Lecturer
Faculdade Sul Brasil, Brazil
2009-2009: Partial-Time Lecturer
Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Paraná - Toledo, Brazil
2006-2010: Full-stack Web Developer
Faculdade Sul Brasil, Brazil

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (2012 - 2017)
Informatics Department (DINF), Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil
Visiting Student: Institute for Software Systems Engineering (ISSE) at Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Austria
Scholarship: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
Supervisor: Silvia Regina Vergilio / Co-supervisor: Roberto Erick Lopez-Herrejon

M.Sc. in Informatics (2010 - 2012)
Informatics Department (DINF), Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil
Scholarship: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
Supervisor: Silvia Regina Vergilio

Graduate Specialization in Teaching in Higher Education (2009 - 2010)
Faculdade Sul Brasil (FASUL), Brazil
Supervisor: Carlos Norberto Berger
Graduate Specialization in Automation and Industrial Networks (2007 - 2009)
Faculdade de Tecnologia Senai Florianópolis, Brazil
Supervisor: Claudia Dell'Agnolo Petry

B.Sc. in Information Systems (2003 - 2006)
Faculdade Sul Brasil (FASUL), Brazil
Supervisor: Fabio Alexandre Spanhol

Grants and Funding

2025-2026: JKU LIT program
Call: 12 LIT-Call (Seed Projects)
PIs: Wesley K. G. Assunção, Alexander Egyed (JKU, Austria), and Paul Grünbacher (JKU, Austria)
Project Title: Body of Knowledge on Software Modernization for Digital Transformation
Funding: EUR 198,656.82
2024-2027: CAPES/COFECUB (Brazil and France)
Call: COFECUB 08/2023
PIs: Juliana Alves Pereira (PUC-Rio, Brazil) and Machieu Acher (University of Rennes 1, France)
Collaborators: Alessandro Garcia, Eduardo Sany Laber, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Paul Temple
Project Title: Learning Software Variability from Software Evolution
Funding: Collaboration trips, PhD and PostDoc scholarships, Student visits
2024-2027: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Call: CNPq/MCTI - 10/2023 - Faixa A
PI: Thelma Colanzi (UEM/Brazil)
Role: Collaborator
Project Title: Intelligent Support to Software Industry for the Modernization of Legacy Systems
Funding: BRL 82,500.00
2023-2024: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Ministry of Science and Technology (MCTI), and National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT)
Call: CNPq/SEMPI/MCTI/FNDCT - 54/2022 - Faixa B
PIs: Glauco Miranda (UTFPR, Brazil) and Pedro Luiz de Paula Filho (UTFPR, Brazil)
Collaborators: Edicléia Aparecida Bonini e Silva (UTFPR), Gloria Patricia López Sepúlveda (UTFPR), Arlete Teresinha Beuren (UTFPR), Andreine Aline Roos (UTFPR), Claudio Biazus (UTFPR), Domingos Tabajara de Oliveira Martins (UFMT, Brazil), Wesley K. G. Assunção (JKU, Austria), Pedro João Soares Rodrigues (IPC, Portugal), Mateus Daniel Almeida Mendes (IPC, Portugal)
Project Title: Intelligent System for Indoor Production of Bioactives for Phytomedicine
Funding: BRL 700,877.00
2020-2023: Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
Call: PDR10-FAPERJ-2020
Supervisor: Alessandro Garcia | PUC-Rio, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Project Title: 'Microservicification' of Legacy Systems
Funding: BRL 360,000.00
2019-2021: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Call: Universal MCTIC/CNPq 28/2018
ID: 408356/2018-9
Project Title: Software Product Line Extraction from Product Variants in Small and Medium-sized Software Enterprises
Funding: BRL 20,000.00
2019-2020: State of Parana Research Foundation (Araucária Foundation)
Call: Young Researchers - PPP (FA/CNPq) - CP 20/18
ID: 51435
Project Title: Extraction of Software Product Lines from Legacy Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Funding: BRL 50,000.00
Total: BRL ~2.36m, EUR ~391k, USD ~420k

Awards

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - 32nd International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024).
Title: Understanding Developers' Discussions and Perceptions on Non-Functional Requirements: The Case of the Spring Ecosystem.
Authors: Anderson Oliveira; João Correia; Wesley K. G. Assunção; Juliana Alves Pereira; Rafael de Mello; Daniel Coutinho; Caio Barbosa; Paulo Libório; and Alessandro Garcia.
IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award - 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024).
Title: Exploring Dependencies Among Inconsistencies to Enhance the Consistency Maintenance of Models.
Authors: Luciano Marchezan, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Edvin Herac, Saad Shafiq, and Alexander Egyed.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023).
Title: The ABLoTS Approach for Bug Localization: is it replicable and generalizable?
Authors: Feifei Niu, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Wesley K. G. Assunção, LiGuo Huang, Jidong Ge, Bin Luo, and Alexander Egyed.
Best Paper Award - 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023).
Title: Feature-oriented Test Case Selection during Evolution of High-Configurable Systems
Authors: Willian Douglas Ferrari Mendonça, Wesley K. G. Assunção, and Silvia Regina Vergilio.
1st-place Master Thesis Award - Software Quality Thesis and Dissertation Contest - 22nd Brazilian Software Quality Symposium (SBQS 2023).
Title: Variability Debt: A Multi-method Study
Authors: Daniele Wolfart, Wesley K. G. Assunção (supervisor), and Jabier Martinez (co-supervisor).
Best Paper Award - 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2022) - Practice & Innovation Track.
Title: Reactive Links Across Multi-Domain Engineering Models
Authors: Cosmina-Cristina Rațiu, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Rainer Haas, and Alexander Egyed.
Best Paper Award - International Conference on Software and Systems Processes (ICSSP 2022) + International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2022).
Title: Change-Oriented Repair Propagation
Authors: Luciano Marchezan, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Roland Kretschmer, and Alexander Egyed.
Distinguished Paper Award (2nd Place) - 15th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components; Architectures; and Reuse (SBCARS 2021).
Title: Do Critical Components Smell Bad? An Empirical Study with Component-based Software Product Lines
Authors: Anderson Uchôa, Wesley K. G. Assunção, and Alessandro Garcia.
Best Paper Award - 4th Southern Brazilian School on Software Engineering (ERES 2020) - Graduate track.
Title: Towards a Process for Migrating Legacy Systems into Microservices Architectural Style
Authors: Daniele Wolfart, Ederson Schmeing, Gustavo C.L. Geraldino, Guilherme L.D. Villaca, Diogo do N. Paza, Diogo C.P. Domingos, Wesley K.G. Assunção, Ivonei F. da Silva, and Victor F.A. Santander.
Best Paper Award - 2nd Southern Brazilian School on Software Engineering (ERES 2018) - Industry track.
Title: Reúso de Software: Do Oportunista ao Sistemático (in Portuguese)
Authors: Wesley K. G. Assunção, Willian D. F. Mendonça, and Silvia R. Vergilio
Best Paper Award Nominee - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015) - Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search.
Title: Extracting Variability-Safe Feature Models from Source Code Dependencies in System Variants
Authors: Wesley K.G. Assunção, Roberto Lopez-Herrejon, Lukas Linsbauer, Silvia Vergilio, and Alexander Egyed.
Best Paper Award Nominee - Latin-American Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (LA-WASP 2012).
Title: Evaluating Different Strategies for Integration Testing of Aspect-Oriented Programs
Authors: Wesley K.G. Assunção, Thelma Colanzi, Silvia Vergilio, and Aurora Ramirez Pozo.
Best Paper Award - Latin-American Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (LA-WASP 2011).
Title: Generating Integration Test Orders for Aspect-Oriented Software with Multiobjective Algorithms
Authors: Thelma Colanzi, Wesley K.G. Assunção, Silvia Vergilio, and Aurora Ramirez Pozo.

Service

32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025) - Tutorial Co-Chair
18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2025) - Poster Co-Chair
Software Product Line Conference Most Influential Paper (MIP) award - Committee Member (since 2024)
32nd International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024) - New Faculty Mentoring Co-Chair
1st International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (Re:Volution) with SPLC 2024 - Organizer
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) Special Issue on Managing Variability in Complex Software-Intensive Systems - Guest editor (SPLC 2022 SI)
26th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022) - Program Co-Chair
1st International Workshop on Technical Debt for Variability-intensive Systems (TD4ViS 2022) with SPLC 2022 - Organizer
2nd International Workshop on Variability Management for Modern Technologies (VM4ModernTech 2022) with SPLC 2022 - Organizer
10th International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering (REVE 2022) with SPLC 2022 - Organizer
15th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2022) - Publicity Co-Chair
6th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2021) - Program Co-Chair
13th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2021) - Proceeding Chair
1st International Workshop on Variability Management for Modern Technologies (VM4ModernTech 2021) with SPLC 2021 - Organizer
9th International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering (REVE 2021) with SPLC 2021 - Organizer
8th International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering (REVE 2020) with SPLC 2020 - Organizer
24th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2020) - Journal First Co-Chair
12th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2020) - Challenge track Co-Chair
23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2019) - Publicity and Social Media Co-Chair
10th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2018) - Challenge track Co-Chair
9th Brazilian Workshop on Search-Based Software Engineering (WESB 2018) - Organizer

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
Information and Software Technology (IST)
Automated Software Engineering Journal (ASE)
IEEE Software
Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR)
Software and Systems Modeling (SOSYM)
Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)
Information Sciences (INS)
Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD)
Science of Computer Programming
IET Software

Program Committee

47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) - Doctoral Symposium
33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025) - Research Track
32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025) - Research Track, Industry Track
22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025) - Technical Track
4th International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI (CAIN 2025)
22nd International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2025)
19th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2025)
8th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST 2025)
2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Financial Firms (FinanSE 2025)
46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) - Technical Track, Demonstrations Track
39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024) - Research Track
31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) - Research Track
21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024) - Technical Track
24th IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2024) - Research Track
28th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2024) - Research track, Challenge track
32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024) - Demonstrations Track
40th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024) - NIER Track
18th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024)
3rd International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI (CAIN 2024)
7th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST 2024)
38th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2024) - Research track
9th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2024) - Research track
6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE Intelligence 2024)
20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023) - Technical Track
39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023) - Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival
27th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023) - Research track, Challenge track
37th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2023) - Research track
23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2023) - Replication and Negative Results Track
8th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2023) - Research track
6th International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-intensive Systems (VariVolution 2023)
15th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2023) - Challenge Track
19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2022) - Technical Track
38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022) - Tool Demo track
37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2022) - Artifact Evaluation track
16th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2022) - Research track
31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2022) - Artifact Evaluation track
36th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2022) - Research track
7th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2022) - Research track
21st Brazilian Software Quality Symposium (SBQS 2022) - Research track, Thesis and Dissertation Contest
14th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2022) - Challenge track
6th Southern Brazilian School on Software Engineering (ERES 2022) - Graduate track
43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021) - ACM Student Research Competition Judge
36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021) - Artifact Evaluation track
37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2021) - Tool Demo track
35th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2021) - Research track
2nd Undergraduate Research on Software Engineering Competition (CTIC-ES 2021) part of the SBES 2021
20th Brazilian Software Quality Symposium (SBQS 2021) - Research track, Thesis and Dissertation Contest
25th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021) - Challenge track, Journal First Track
15th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2021) - Research track
28th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2021) - Tool track
4th International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (VariVolution 2021) - Research track
5th Southern Brazilian School on Software Engineering (ERES 2021) - Graduate track
2nd International Workshop DevOps at MODELS (DevOps@MODELS 2021)
24th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2020) - Research track, Challenge track
12th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2020) - Research track
5th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2020) - Research track
34th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2020) - Innovative Ideas and Emerging Results track
19th Brazilian Software Quality Symposium (SBQS 2020) - Research track
8th International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering (REVE 2020)
3rd International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (VariVolution 2020)
4th Southern Brazilian School on Software Engineering (ERES 2020) - Graduate track, Undergraduate track
11th Computer on the Beach (COTB 2020) - Research track
11th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2019) - Research track
23nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2019) - Challenge track
4th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2019) - Research track
10th Brazilian Workshop on Search-Based Software Engineering (WESB 2019)
10th Computer on the Beach (COTB 2019) - Research track
3rd Southern Brazilian School on Software Engineering (ERES 2019) - Graduate track
10th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2018) - Challenge track
22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2018) - Challenge track
3rd Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 2018) - Research track
9th Brazilian Workshop on Search-Based Software Engineering (WESB 2018)
9th Computer on the Beach (COTB 2018) - Research track
8th Brazilian Workshop on Search-Based Software Engineering (WESB 2017)

Conference and Journal Subreviewer

34th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2020) - Research track
27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019)
9th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2017)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Special Issue on "Search Based Software Engineering" (CIMSBSE 2016)
32nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016)
28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2016)
7th Brazilian Workshop on Search-Based Software Engineering (WESB 2016)
7th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering - SBSE Challenge track (SSBSE 2015)
27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2015)
26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2014)

Logo Design

Winner of competition to design the for The Brazilian Conference on Agile Methods (Agile Brazil 2010)