Awards and Distinctions

• Best Paper Award, 7th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES'2003), for the paper Improving Offset Assignment through Simultaneous Variable Coalescing. September 2003, Vienna, Austria.
  
  
• 2005/2007 Department Fellowship for outstanding qualifications, Rutgers University Department of Computer Science.
  
  
• Highest GPA (9.0/10.0) in the Computer Engineering undergraduate program at Federal University of Rio Grande, among the students graduated in 2001. Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.