Leonardo Sousa

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Joined

December 2025

Names

Leonardo Sousa (Preferred)

Leonardo da Silva Sousa

Emails

****@sv.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2020 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Alessandro Garcia

2014 – 2019

Expertise

machine learning

2020 – Present

software engineering

2018 – Present

Publications

Level Up Peer Review in Education: Investigating genAI-driven Gamification system and its influence on Peer Feedback Effectiveness
Rafal Wlodarski, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Allison E. Connell Pensky
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Don't Forget the Exception! : Considering Robustness Changes to Identify Design Problems
Anderson Oliveira, João Lucas Correia, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Daniel Coutinho, Alessandro F. Garcia, Willian Nalepa Oizumi, Caio Barbosa, Anderson G. Uchôa, Juliana Alves Pereira
- MSR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Smell Patterns as Indicators of Design Degradation: Do Developers Agree?
Anderson Oliveira, Willian Nalepa Oizumi, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Alessandro F. Garcia, Carlos Lucena, Diego Cedrim
- SBES 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Revealing Developers' Arguments on Validating the Incidence of Code Smells: A Focus Group Experience
Luiz Felipi Junionello, Rafael Maiani de Mello, Roberto Oliveira, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Alexander López, Alessandro Garcia
- VEM 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Revealing the Social Aspects of Design Decay: A Retrospective Study of Pull Requests
Caio Barbosa, Anderson G. Uchôa, Daniel Coutinho, Filipe Falcão, Hyago H. S. Brito, Guilherme Amaral, Vinícius Soares, Alessandro F. Garcia, Baldoino Fonseca, Márcio Ribeiro, Leonardo da Silva Sousa
- SBES 2020
- Readers: Everyone
When Are Smells Indicators of Architectural Refactoring Opportunities: A Study of 50 Software Projects
Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Willian Nalepa Oizumi, Alessandro Garcia, Anderson Oliveira, Diego Cedrim, Carlos Lucena
- ICPC 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Characterizing and Identifying Composite Refactorings: Concepts, Heuristics and Patterns
Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Diego Cedrim, Alessandro Garcia, Willian Nalepa Oizumi, Ana Carla Bibiano, Daniel Oliveira, Miryung Kim, Anderson Oliveira
- MSR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Refactoring effect on internal quality attributes: What haven't they told you yet?
Eduardo Fernandes, Alexander Chávez, Alessandro Garcia, Isabella Ferreira, Diego Cedrim, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Willian Nalepa Oizumi
- Inf. Softw. Technol. 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Recommending Composite Refactorings for Smell Removal: Heuristics and Evaluation
Willian Nalepa Oizumi, Ana Carla Bibiano, Diego Cedrim, Anderson Oliveira, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Alessandro F. Garcia, Daniel Oliveira
- SBES 2020
- Readers: Everyone
On the Prioritization of Design-Relevant Smelly Elements: A Mixed-Method, Multi-Project Study
Anderson Oliveira, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Willian Nalepa Oizumi, Alessandro Garcia
- SBCARS 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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