Projects
My work focuses on the intersection of human-centric software engineering, open science tools, and the application of Generative AI in empirical research.
Cross-cultural investigation of empathy in SE 🌍 Research Initiative
I am leading a new international initiative exploring empathy across diverse cultural work settings. We are currently conducting comparative case studies and interviews, starting with software teams in Portugal and Botswana, to understand how cultural context influences empathic behavior in engineering.
RAG-Coder: GenAI for Qualitative Analysis 💻 Software
Collaborating with industry partners to develop GenAI-driven solutions for assessing job satisfaction and work engagement. RAG-Coder is a framework that utilizes Retrieval-Augmented Generation to assist researchers in coding and interpreting open-ended survey responses at scale.
CERCA is an open-source research tool that supports verification of bibliographic references in scientific manuscripts. It extracts references from PDF files and checks their existence and consistency against authoritative metadata sources, producing explainable diagnostics, audit logs, and reproducible reports.