Awards & Distinctions

Research fellowships, paper awards, and recognitions received by my students and me over the last ten years (2017–2026).

Research fellowships & distinctions

CNPq 2020–present

Research Productivity Fellowship (PQ-2)

FAPERJ 2019-present

Young Scientist of Our State (Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado)

FAPERJ 2023

Young Woman Scientist (Jovem Cientista Mulher)

Inaugural FAPERJ call for young women scientists at research institutions in Rio de Janeiro

CAPES-PrInt 2023

Visiting Professor, NLP Group, University of Sheffield (UK)

Paper awards

2025
  • Best Paper — Track on Social Network and Media · ACM SAC 2025
    Language Flavors in the Lusophone World: A BERT-Based Social Media Study of Portuguese in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique
  • Best Paper · KDMiLe 2025
    When Modernity Enhances Tradition and Specialization: A BERT Ensemble for Temporal Financial Argument Detection
  • Third Best Paper · KDMiLe 2025
    Opportunities vs. Risks: Exploring Automatic Annotation of Financial Polarity Biases via Large Language Models
2024
  • TCCLS Best Paper Award · IEEE CBMS 2024
    Aggregating Embeddings from Image and Radiology Reports for Multimodal Chest-CT Retrieval
  • Best Paper · BreSci 2024 — Brazilian e-Science Workshop
    Busca e Recuperação de Workflows em Repositórios por meio de Transformers e Modelagem de Tópicos
  • Best Paper, 2nd place · KDMiLe 2024
    Multiple Voices, Greater Power: A Strategy for Combining Language Models to Combat Hate Speech
2023
  • Honorable Mention · Dataset Showcase Workshop (SBC)
    LHTR.br: em Busca de um Conjunto Anotado de Textos Manuscritos em Português
2022
  • Best Poster, 2nd place · LatinX in AI
    A Modality-level Explainable Framework for Misinformation Checking in Social Networks
2021
  • Best Machine Learning Journal Paper Award · ILP 2021 / IJCLR 2021
  • Best Paper, 2nd place · KDMiLe 2021
    Enriching Datasets for Sentiment Analysis in Tweets with Instance Selection

best / 1st place 2nd place 3rd place honorable mention

Awards to students I supervised

2025

Sidney Melo

Honorable Mention, Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD SBGames)

PhD thesis · Advisor

2020

Jéssica Soares dos Santos

Microsoft Latin America PhD Award — one of three winners

PhD · Advisor

2020

Rodrigo Azevedo Santos

Second best MSc dissertation, CTDIAC 2020 (SBC)

MSc dissertation · External advisor

2020

Rodrigo Azevedo Santos

Top 10 MSc dissertations, SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD)

MSc dissertation · External advisor

2020

Sidney Araujo Melo

Third best MSc dissertation, CTD-Jogos 2020 (SBC)

MSc dissertation · Co-advisor

Teaching honors

  • 2019Class sponsor (Paraninfa), Computer Science class of 2018/2 · UFF
  • 2018Honored professor, Computer Science class of 2018/1 · UFF
Earlier awards (before 2017)
  • 2015Best Paper, CARLA 2015 — Latin America High Performance Computing Conference
  • 2015Honored professor, Computer Science class of 2014/2, UFF
  • 2012First place, VIII Contest of Theses in Artificial Intelligence (CTDIA 2012) — PhD thesis
  • 2009Among the four best papers, ENIA 2009 — "Revisando Redes Bayesianas através da Introdução de Variáveis Não-observadas"
  • 2007Best Paper, ENIA 2007 — "Revisando Teorias Lógicas de Primeira-ordem a partir de Exemplos usando Busca Local Estocástica"