Wesley K. G. Assunção

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

  • 2025-2028: Economic Affairs Department of the State of Upper Austria
    Call: AI Region Upper Austria
    PIs: Ouijdane Guiza (Pro2Future GmbH)
    Co-PIs: Paul Grünbacher (JKU, Austria), Alexander Egyed (JKU, Austria).
    Collaborators: Wesley K. G. Assunção, Luciano Marchezan (JKU, Austria), Cosmina Ratiu (JKU, Austria).
    Industry Partners: Dynatrace (https://www.dynatrace.com/) and ITPRO Consulting & Software GmbH (https://www.itpro.at/en/)
    Project Title: RefactorAI
    Funding: EUR 928,250.00
  • 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: USD ~1.4m or EUR ~1.3m or BRL ~8.6m

 

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

  • 29th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2025) - Short papers & Emerging results Co-Chair
  • 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)
  • 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2025) - NIER Track
  • 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)