Italo Santos

Research Activities

RESEARCH PROJECTS

August 2023

May 2023

Community-driven Measurement of ICT Infrastructure

Northern Arizona University (NAU)

Investigate crowdsourcing measurements of broadband coverage among rural, low-income, and tribal populations;

Increase access to information and telecommunication (ICT) infrastructure across the U.S;

Support access to the essential services and opportunities delivered via ICT. 

Currently

August 2022

Collaborative Research: Gender-Inclusive Open Source through Gender-Inclusive Tools

Northern Arizona University (NAU)

Investigate whether OSS tools and infrastructure contain gender biases tied with the diversity of problem-solving styles;

Understand how such biases can be removed from tools and infrastructure;

Explore how building inclusive tools changes the climate in OSS communities.

August 2021

May 2022 

Collaborative Research: Scaffolding skill acquisition to onboard OSS ecosystems

Northern Arizona University (NAU)

Create a model of the skills needed to contribute to OSS projects;

Create an approach that extracts the skills needed to complete an (open) task;

Investigate gender-specific newcomer barriers, and identify strategies and tool support to increase diversity in OSS.

July 2020

March 2018 

Study and definition of project attributes for selection of concurrent software testing techniques

University of São Paulo

Identify relevant project attributes to support the selection process;

Define and implement the combination of testing techniques;

Evolve the selection approach in the SeleCTT tool;

Conduct experiments to evaluate the proposed selection approach.

August 2016

January 2016 

Interaction of Students in Virtual Forums, Scientific Initiation

Federal University of Ceará

Development of the interaction environment;

Organization of interviews;

Analysis of the data collected.

December 2015

October 2014 

Digital Didactic Materials, Graduation Monitoring Project 

Federal University of Ceará

Analysis and data collection;

Writing of scientific papers;

Participation of study group.

December 2014

April 2014 

Creation of Interactive Infographics, Extension Project

Federal University of Ceará

Content creation;

Creation of art and character design;

Interaction programming.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

December 2023

August 2022 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Northern Arizona University (NAU), Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

Course: CS476 - Requirements Engineering;

               CS486 - Senior Capstone Design.

Provide mentoring to different project teams;

Guide students throughout their capstone project;

Project planning, requirements analysis to the implementation and testing phase of the final product.

July 2019

January 2019 

Teaching Assistant Intern, University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil.

Course: Software Testing.

Plan and correction of class assignments;

Help lead teachers to create lesson plans;

Assist teachers with practical activities in lab using testing tools.

December 2018

July 2018 

Teaching Assistant Intern, University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil.

Course: Information Systems.

Assist teachers with lesson preparation by getting materials ready and setting up equipment;

Help lead teachers to create lesson plans;

Work with the lead teacher to monitor the class schedule.

August 2018

June 2018 

Teaching Mediator, Virtual University of the State of São Paulo, UNIVESP, Brazil.

Course: Computer Engineering.

Help students to complete their assignments;

Application of tests and correction of exercises.

July 2018

March 2018 

Instructor of Web Development, University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil.

Course: Computer Science.

Assist teachers with lesson preparation by getting materials ready and setting up equipment;

Help lead teachers to create lesson plans;

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Editorial Member

Journal Reviewer

Program Committee 

Publicity Chair

Website Chair

Conference Reviewer

Volunteer 

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

AWARDS AND HONORS

2023

First Place - Engineering FEST - Poster - NAU Fall 2023 School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), Northern Arizona University

2023

ESEIW/ESEM 2023 Student Travel Grant, NSF Travel Support

2023

Graduate Student Government Representative of the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences (CEIAS), Graduate Student Government - Northern Arizona University (GSG - NAU)

2023

SIGSOFT Travel Grants ICSE 2023 - Student Mentoring Workshop (SMeW), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)

2023

NAU Orientation International Ambassador - Fall 2023, Northern Arizona University (NAU)

2022

Graduate Student Government Representative of the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences (CEIAS), Graduate Student Government - Northern Arizona University (GSG - NAU)

2022

SIGSOFT Travel Grants ICSE 2022 - Student Mentoring Workshop (SMeW), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)

2022

NAU Orientation International Ambassador - Spring 2022, Northern Arizona University (NAU)

2021

3rd Place - III THESIS AND DISSERTATION COMPETITION IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CTDSI), XVII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems (SBSI)

2021

NAU Orientation International Ambassador - Fall 2021, Northern Arizona University (NAU)

2020

Paper Honorable mention at the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems (SBSI 2020), Brazilian Computer Society, SBC.

2019

SIGSOFT Travel Grants ICSE 2019 - Student Mentoring Workshop (SMeW), SIGSOFT.

2018

FAPESP Master's Degree Scholarship, São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP.

2018

Master Scholarship, National Council of Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq.

2017

CAPS/NSF Awards Funding, SIGSOFT CAPS.

2017

Academic distinction "Magna Cum Laude" to graduate in Digital Media and Systems, Federal University of Ceará.

2017

Class Representant in Digital Media and Systems, Federal University of Ceará.

2012

II Academic Performance Competition, Federal Institute of Ceará - Maracanaú Campus.

MENTORING

2019 - 2020

Scientific research program

Undergraduate Course in Computer Engineering 

Student: Andre Baconcelo Prado Furlanetti 

Project:  Evolution of the SeleCTT Tool to Support Combined Selection of Industry-Competitive Software Testing Techniques

Supervisor: Simone do Rocio Senger de Souza 

Advisor: Italo Santos

University of São Paulo, Brazil

2019

Undergraduate thesis

Undergraduate Course in Computer Engineering 

Student: Julio César Coelho Filho 

Project:  Identifying software testing practices in the context of mobile applications: a practical look

Supervisor: Simone do Rocio Senger de Souza 

Advisor: Italo Santos

University of São Paulo, Brazil

GRADUATE THESIS COMMITTEES

2022

SUZUKI, A.K.; SANTOS, ITALO; SANTOS JUNIOR, J. J. Board Committee of Alexandre Regatieri do Carmo. Identifying the student's emotional state before being submitted to the use of Intelligent Tutoring Systems: a quick literature review. Monograph (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2022

TORI, R.; SANTOS, ITALO; HILASACA, L. M. H. Board Committee of Ana Paula da Costa de Camargo. Immersive virtual reality in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, pedagogical practice to develop socio-emotional learning? Monograph (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2022

RODRIGUES, F.; MORAIS, C. G. B.; SANTOS, ITALO. Board Committee of Tuane de Oliveira Lima. Motivation in Affective Computing and Education: systematic literature review. Monograph (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2022

BRANCO, K. R. L. J. C.; SANTOS, S. K. S. L.; SANTOS, ITALO. Board Committee of Vanderlan Bernardino dos Santos. Computing technology applied in the education and development of small rural producers. Monograph (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2022

RIOS, K.; SANTOS, S. K. S. L.; SANTOS, ITALO. Board Committee of Vanessa Reis Gomes Simoes. Creativity in Textual Production in Preparatory Students for the Enem in Morro do Fubá. Monograph (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2020

OSORIO, F. S .; MORAIS, F .; SANTOS, ITALO. Board Committee of Carlos Julian Menezes Araújo. Teaching socioemotional skills: a case study using audiovisual media and online conversation. Graduate thesis (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2020

OSORIO, F. S .; SANTOS, ITALO; MATOS, S. F. D .. Board Committee of Josenilton de Aragão Lima. Extension Course Proposal to Develop Computational Thinking in Integrated High School. Graduate thesis (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2020

TORI, R .; LOPES, G. R .; SANTOS, ITALO. Board Committee of Bruno Harllen Pontes da Silva. Theoretical study of Instructional Design for the use of Virtual Reality in the training of professional activities in energized distribution lines. Graduate thesis (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2020

MENEGUETTE, R .; SILVA, A. S .; SANTOS, ITALO. Board Committee of Patrícia Bárbara de Paula. The understanding of Computational Thinking through the inhabited space using the Google Maps tool. Graduate thesis (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2020

ISOTANI, S .; SANTOS, ITALO; BONFIM, D. P. F .. Board Committee of Sidney Felipe Moraes. Identification of the Self-Effectiveness of Twitter Users in relation to the Theme? Geography? with the Use of Sentiment Analysis. Graduate thesis (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SOUSA, E. P. M .; SANTOS, ITALO; SANTOS JUNIOR, J. J .. Board Committee of Valquiria Elena Gonçalves Theodoro. The perception of the elementary school teacher about the practice of remote teaching. Graduate thesis (Specialization in Computing Applied to Education) - University of São Paulo.

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS COMMITTEES

2023

NAKAGAWA, E. Y.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Pedro Jose Garcia. Platform development using Nest.js and databases SQL and NoSQL. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2023

NAKAGAWA, E. Y.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Adrian Pereira da Silva. IAM DATA - Platform for centralizing, presenting data, and generating reports for investment funds. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2023

MONACO, F. J.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Felipe Rabachute Veloso. Hubspot and Customer Relationship Manager. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2023

BRAGA, R. T. V.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Thiago Rodrigues da Cunha Marafeli. Implementation of pipelines and infrastructure management. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2023

RODRIGUES JUNIOR, J. F.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Joao Pedro Almeida Santos Secundino. Automating repositories with Github Actions - F1rst Tecnologia (Santander). Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2023

ROMERO, R. A. F.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Matheus Sanchez. Application Watchdog - Monitoring Application. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2023

AGUIAR, C. D.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Pedro Rossi Silva Rodrigues. Automation, automation, and improvement of Backoffice routines for the Financial Market. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2023

TRAINA, A. J. M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Vitor Amorim Frois. Development of Liquidity Risk Analysis Tool. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2023

TRAINA, A. J. M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Matheus Tomieiro de Oliveira. Research and development of security solutions for Samsung R&D. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2022

ESTRELLA, J. C.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Guilherme Sanches Flores Queiroz. Architecture of a Web system for visualization and manipulation of complex networks. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2022

BRAGA, R. T. V.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Orlando Pasqual Filho. A Vision of a Multidisciplinary Daily Life and its Importance. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2022

NAKAGAWA, E. Y.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Eduardo da Silva Argenti. E-commerce - Suporte Técnico e Desenvolvimento Backend. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - University of São Paulo.

2022

RODRIGUES JUNIOR, J. F.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Matheus Barcellos de Castro Cunha. Development of Cobli's field operations management tool. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2022

RODRIGUES JUNIOR, J. F.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Guilherme Targon Marques Barcellos. Support and Services in MFT/B2B tools. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2022

RODRIGUES JUNIOR, J. F.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Julia Carolina Frare Peixoto. Development of order management applications for telecommunications services. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2022

NAZARE, T. S.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Victor Vieira Custodio Reis. Creation of Web Pages and Implementation of Search Engine Optimization techniques. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2022

REZENDE, S. O.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Gabriel Santos Souza. Work Experience as a Software Engineer at Maestro Interactive. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

COUTINHO, E. F.; SILVA, J. C.; DE OLIVEIRA SANTOS, ITALO; BEZERRA, CARLA I. M.. Committee of FRANCISCO VICTOR DA SILVA PINHEIRO. A WEB TOOL TO SUPPORT SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM MODELING USING SSN NOTATION. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information Systems) - Federal University of Ceará - Campus Quixada.

2021

TOLEDO, C.F.M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of William Maehara. Restructuring of the Commercial Automation System. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

WOLF, D.F.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Rafael Doering Soares. Development of Payment Platform. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

SOUZA, S.R.S.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Bruno de Sousa Pagno. Software development in an ATS system. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

SOUSA, E.P.M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Paulo Ricardo Jordao Miranda. Development of time management software using Ruby on Rails, React and GraphQL. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

TRAINA, A.J.M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Felipe Scrochio Custodio’s board. Extraction of product data at scale for intelligence generation. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

TRAINA, A.J.M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Guilherme Targon Marques Barcellos. Axway - Support and Services in MFT/B2B tools. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

TRAINA, A.J.M.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Vitor Trevelin Xavier da Silva. Web Development with emphasis on Digital Marketing. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2021

SOUZA, S.R.S.; SANTOS, ITALO. Committee of Danilo Rafhael Resende Malheiro da Silva. Training and insertion in the job market as a Full-Stack developer at the company IT Enabler. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; GOULARTE, R .. Committee of João Pedro Sousa dos Reis. A Startup Experience. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; MARCACINI, R. M .. Committee of Nícolas Bassetto Leite. Technology Integration - Amdocs. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; LOPES, A. A .. Committee of Gabriel Rodrigues do Prado Rossales. Siena Company Internship. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; CORDEIRO, R. L. F .. Committee of Vitor Augusto Henrique Brisola. Development of Web Applications in Javascript focusing on the use of React and GraphQL. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; MARCACINI, R. M .. Committee of Alyson Matheus M Nascimento. Software Development and Maintenance - LimasLab. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; LOPES, A. A .. Committee of Leonardo Ventura. Supervised internship at Amdocs Brasil. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; GOULARTE, R .. Committee of Bruno Flávio Ferreira. OSS Software Developer. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; TRAINA, A. J. M .. Committee of Bruno Mendes da Costa. OSS Software Developer at Amdocs. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; GOULARTE, R .. Committee of Tiago Silva Miranda. Data Engineering at Stefanini. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2020

SILVA, J. C .; SANTOS, ITALO; BEZERRA, CARLA I. M .. Committee of FRANCISCO VICTOR DA SILVA PINHEIRO. A WEB TOOL TO SUPPORT SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM MODELING USING SSN NOTATION. 2020. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Information System) - Federal University of Ceará.

2020

SANTOS, ITALO; MARCACINI, R. M .. Committee of Victor Antonio de Oliveira. Full Stack Development in a Web Teaching System. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MOREIRA, D. A.. Committee of Gustavo Dias Cavalheri. Full-Stack Development in the company Ringa. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; CORDEIRO, R. L. F.. Committee of Raul Wagner Martins Costa. Extracting accounts and values from balance sheets and DRE. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; OLIVEIRA, M. C. F.. Committee of Danilo Zecchin Nery. Automation of Large Scale UI Tests. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; OLIVEIRA, M. C. F.. Committee of Filipe Mariano Freire da Silva. Development and customization of open source SIGE software. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MOREIRA, D. A.. Committee of Bernardo Barcellos de Castro Cunha. Raccoon Digital Marketing - Business Intelligence Team. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MOREIRA, D. A.. Committee of João Victor Lopes da Silva Guimarães. Technical Rotation Associate - Trend Micro. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MARCACINI, R. M.. Committee of Danilo da Costa Telles Téo. Business Intelligence Applied In Practice. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MANZATO, M. G.. Committee of Bruno Mitsuo Homma. Developer Rails QW3 Software, Marketing and Consulting. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; TRAINA JUNIOR, C.. Committee of Victor Souza Cezario. Web Development using Ruby on Rails. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MARCACINI, R. M.. Committee of Bruno Caltabiano. Development of Web APIs with REST Architecture and GraphQL. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; CORDEIRO, R. L. F.. Committee of Igor Trevelin Xavier da Silva. TI Applied To Digital Marketing. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; CORDEIRO, R. L. F.. Committee of Giovanna Guimarães. Development of web application for logistics. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; CORDEIRO, R. L. F.. Committee of Jorge Ashkar Ferreira Simondi. Development Web - SF Labs. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MARCACINI, R. M.. Committee of Eder Ribeiro. Digital Marketing Solutions. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; CORDEIRO, R. L. F.. Committee of Eduardo Garcia Misiuk. Development Back End in IoT Platform Dojot. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2019

SANTOS, ITALO; MOREIRA, D. A.. Committee of Gustavo Dias Cavalheri. Developing new products for Fintech's ecommerce system. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2018

SANTOS, ITALO; BATISTA, G.. Committee of Willian Gomes de Oliveira. Automation of tests for mobile apps. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.

2018

SANTOS, ITALO; PIMENTEL, M. G. C.. Committee of Giovani Ortolani Barbosa. Tags and Tracking at Raccoon Marketing Digital. Undergraduate thesis (Undergraduate Course in Computer Science) - University of São Paulo.