• Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
• 🎓 Ph.D. and M.Sc. from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• 🎓 B.Sc. from Federal University of Sergipe (UFS)
• 💻 Main research areas: Software Security, Program Analysis, Software Architecture, Source Code Analysis, Empirical Software Engineering, Data Mining
• ℹ️ More details on my personal website: https://joannacss.github.io/

I am always open to collaborate. Reach me via e-mail.

• 👩‍🎓 I joined the Computer Engineering program at Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) in 2009 (the year it was created). Since I finished all courses one semester earlier, I graduated alone (i.e., the 2013 "class" was just me lol).
  • I named the "class" of 2013 as Null (it made sense back then haha).
  • Since I graduated earlier than expected, I ended being the 1st alumni from the CE program at UFS.
• 🎒I skipped one grade when I was 6 years old
  • That's why I was usually the youngest student in school/college
• 🖥️ I wrote my first program when I was 13 years old (or 12? don't quite remember the exact year!)
  • A Quadratic Equation Calculator written in ILA - a language that had a pseudocode syntax that resembled with Portuguese
• 🎸 I play guitar (not so regularly due to limited free time)
  • Learned to play when I was 12 years old
• 🥁 I am learning to play drums
  • to be fair, I am being quite unable to regularly practice it given the sheer amount of work these days
• 🎵 I was part of a pop/rock band while in middle/high school
  • I even did a cover of Avril Lavigne in 2008
• 🎮 Minecraft is my favorite computer game
• 🥋 I trained Krav Maga for two years