Joanna C. S. Santos
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
382 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
@nd.edu
If you are interested in working with me in Software Engineering and/or Software Security projects, please refer to this page.
Last Updated: April 2025
About me
Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos (Joanna C. S. Santos) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame (ND). She received her Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), her M.Sc. in Software Engineering from RIT and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). She leads the Security and Software Engineering research lab (S2E).
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 and Security:
- Code Generation NAACL 2025 Findings SIGCSE 2025 ICPC 2024 EASE 2024 ICSE-NIER 2024 MSR4P&S 2022 SCAM 2022
- Software Security TSE 2023 FSE 2019 JSS 2019 ICSA 2017
- Program Analysis and Source Code Manipulation OOPSLA 2024 SCAM 2022 SOAP 2021 FTfJP 2020
- Software Architecture ICSA 2021 ICSA 2020 EMSE 2016 JSS 2016
Honors & Awards
- 🏆 2023 - Distinguished Reviewer Award at ESEC/FSE 2023.
- 🏆 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.