Joanna C. S. Santos
PhD Candidate
Software Engineering & Global Cybersecurity Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology
@rit.edu
I'll join the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department at University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor on Fall 2021.
I am recruiting Ph.D. students interested in Software Engineering and/or Software Security. Feel free to contact me if you're interested.
Last Updated: May 2021
About me
Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos (Joanna C. S. Santos) is a Ph.D. candidate in Computing and Information Sciences at RIT, being advised by Dr. Mehdi Mirakhorli. She has an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from RIT and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Federal University of Sergipe (UFS, Brazil).
She is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) for the paper "Understanding Software Vulnerabilities Related to Architectural Security Tactics: An Empirical Investigation of Chromium, PHP and Thunderbird".
Research Interests
Her main research interests are in the domain of Software Engineering:
- Software Security
Ex: ESEC/FSE'19 JSS'19 ICSA'17
- Program Analysis and Source Code Manipulation
- Software Architecture
Honors & Awards
- 🏆 2020 - Won Research Pitch Competition at JOBS Workshop @MICRO'20.
- 🏆 2017 - Best Paper Award at ICSA'17.
- 🏆 2014 - Scholarship from CAPES to pursue a masters degree at RIT.
- 🏆 2013 - Published paper ranked at 3rd place in WTICGBASE - XIII ERBASE.