2026 Best Student Paper Award (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education - AIED): Unpacking Vibe Coding: Help-Seeking Processes in Student-AI Interactions While Programming (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-29763-1_35)
2026 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Excellence Awards in Interdisciplinary Research (AI-ALLY)
2025 Best Paper Award (ICSLE): Writing under pressure: How time-induced stress and cognitive load shape student writing style. Together with: Kamila Misiejuk, Sonsoles Lopez-Pernas, Shubham Rawal, and Mohammed Saqr.
2023 IChemE Hanson Medal Award - awarded to the author or authors of the best article to appear in The Chemical Engineer magazine each year..
2023 University-wide Edward Brown Award for Teaching Excellence.
2023 Best Concise Paper Award (ASCILITE): Creating a software application to help university educators to reflect on the cognitive complexity of their exam questions, using Bloom’s Taxonomy and automated classification. Together with: Andrew Valentine.
2022 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Excellence Awards: Teaching and Learning - The Kelvin Medal.
2021 School of Computing and Information Systems Excellence Awards - Teaching and Learning award.
2017 School of Computing and Information Systems Excellence Awards - Excellence in Tutoring award.
2013 Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) Best PhD Thesis award: Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) in Congress on Computers in Education (CBIE).
2009 Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) Third Best Masters Dissertation award: Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) in Brazilian Symposium on Computers in Education.