Rafael Lotufo @ UWaterloo

PhD Student
Generative Software Lab
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

I am currently a PhD student in the Generative Software Lab under Dr. Krzysztof Czarnecki's supervision
I am in my fifth term of my studies

Model extraction from software repositories to aid software development and decision making

project for Search Engines course that envolved creating a scalable search engine capable of answering questions like: "which countries hosted the olympic games", "when was Abraham Lincoln born", "who was born on May 1980". This work envolved using simple natural language processing techniques -- part of speech (POS) tagging -- and relying on the assumption that relevant information is frequently repeated in the web. Thus, ordering the results by their frequency should return only relevant -- and correct -- results.

Fall 2010: CS860: Advanced Topics in Algorithms and Complexity: Search Engines, from Design to Implementation
Spring 2009: CS689 - Machine Learning
Winter 2009: CS842 - Topics in Software Evolution and Design

Study on the evolution of complexity of the Linux kernel configuration.
Critique on On Finding Duplication and Near-Duplication in Large Software Systems, Brenda S. Baker, Proc. of the 1995 Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE-95), Toronto, Ontario, July 1995.
Critique on Software Aging, David Parnas, Proc. of 1994 Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE-94), Sorrento, Italy, 1994.

I have over 6 years working experience with software development, delivering critical customized J2EE applications for companies such as VALE, Petrobras, Apple, Bank Boston, Johnson & Johnson, International Engines and 3M
Of these 6 years, 4 years I have been working as a team leader
For more details and references, please consult my LinkedIn profile