About me

Long story short

• 2014/present Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande
• Jun-2014/Sept-2014 - Intern at Microsoft Research, working with Shuvendu Lahiri, Christian Bird, and Mike Barnett.
• 2013/2014 - PhD guest student at University of British Columbia (UBC), under supervision of professor Gail C. Murphy
• 2007/2009 - Master in Computer Science at UFCG
• 2003/2007 - Bachelor in Computer Science at UFCG

Publications

2026

An MCP-based Solution for Managing Slices in Private 5G Networks. V. Verissimo, M. Ferreira, L. Buriti, T. Morais, R. Alves, and J. Brunet. In Anais do XLIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (WGRS - Workshop de Gerência e Operação de Redes e Serviços), 2026.

ARIT: A Tool for Detecting Code Smells in Clojure Programs. T. Laurentino, R. Serey, W. Araujo, N. Silva, and J. Brunet. In Anais do XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Software: Teoria e Prática (CBSoft 2026), 2026.

Benchmark Data Contamination in Underrepresented Languages: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Brazilian Data. I. Vilar, D. Maia, J. Brunet, F. Morais, and L. Marinho. In Proceedings of The Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026, p.4765.

Can LLMs Turn Design Discussions into Architectural Tests? An Empirical Study with Codestral. A. Lucena, J. Brunet, and E. Alves. In Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2026), 2026.

End-to-End Pipeline for Traffic Load Prediction in a Simulated 5G O-RAN Network. A. Nascimento, J. Silva, V. Verissimo, T. Morais, R. Alves, and J. Brunet. In Proceedings of 31st IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) - NGSME Workshop, 2026.

HuNeBR: A Multitask Benchmark to Evaluate LLMs’ Understanding of Northeastern Brazilian Portuguese Humor. J. Gama, D. Maia, L. Marinho, F. Morais, and J. Brunet. In Proceedings of The Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026, p.299-311.

Influence of Core Decentralization on the Performance of a Private 5G Network. E. Silva Junior, H. Dantas, F. Silva Filho, T. Morais, R. Gomes, and J. Brunet. In Anais do XVII Workshop de Pesquisa Experimental da Internet do Futuro, 2026.

JudgeBench-BR: A Replication and Adaptation of a Multi-Domain Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Judges in Brazilian Portuguese. R. Costa, C. Silva, J. Brunet, F. Morais, and D. Maia. In Anais do 36th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), 2026.

2025

A Defect Taxonomy for Infrastructure as Code Scripts: A Replication Study. W. Oliveira, F. Paiva, Thiago Emmanuel Pereira da Silva, and J. Brunet. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2025).

Beyond Functionality: Automating Algorithm Design Evaluation in Introductory Programming Courses. Caio Oliveira, Leandra Silva, and João Brunet. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2025).

NuAppFirewall: An Open-Source macOS Application Firewall for Corporate Security. B. C. Pacheco, C. Suyungutmus, J. Neto, V. Delgado, W. Araujo, J. Brunet, M. Domingues Junior, and A. Melo. In Proceedings of the XXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Cibersegurança (SBSeg 2025) - tools track.

A Proof of Concept for QoS-Oriented 5G Network Slicing with eBPF-TC. E. Silvestre, R. Melo, R. Gomes, E. Junior, and J. Brunet. In Proceedings of the XLIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações e Processamento de Sinais (SBrT 2025).

Language Models as Architectural Gatekeepers: Automating Conformance Checking from Natural Language. A. Lucena, E. Alves, and J. Brunet. In Proceedings of the XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Software: Teoria e Prática (CBSoft 2025) - IIER track.

Evaluating Semantic Caching in Practice: A Study on a LLM-Driven Distributed Application in a Brazilian EdTech. H. Nóbrega, D. Maia, and J. Brunet. In Anais do XLIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, 2025, p.382-387.

Explorando Network Slicing em Redes 5G em um Contexto Educacional. E. Silvestre, R. Gomes, A. Medeiros, R. Melo, and J. Brunet. In Anais do XLIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, 2025, p.364-369.

2023

User-centric and Secure Electronic Authentication for Digital Health Services: A Case Study for Brazil. Thashmee Karunarathne and Joao Monteiro. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 151–158. https://doi.org/10.1145/3614321.3614339.

Screening Programming’s Reliability to Measure Predictive Programming Skills. Danilo Medeiros Dantas, Jucelio Soares dos Santos, Kézia de Vasconcelos Oliveira Dantas, Wilkerson L. Andrade, João Brunet, and Monilly Ramos Araujo Melo. In Proceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education (SBIE 2023), Brazil, p. 1779.

2022

A Systematic Literature Review on Predictive Cognitive Skills in Novice Programming. SANTOS, J. S. ANDRADE, W. L. BRUNET. Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2022.

2020

A Systematic Literature Review of Methodology of Learning Evaluation based on Item Response Theory in the context of Programming Teaching. SANTOS, J. S. ANDRADE, W. L. BRUNET, J. and MELO, M. R. A. Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2020.

Applying Item Response Theory to Evaluate Instruments of Introductory Programming Skills Measurement. SANTOS, J. S. ANDRADE, W. L. BRUNET, J. and MELO, M. R. A. Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2020.

2019

Automated Design Tests to Check Hibernate Design Recommendations. Taciano Silva, Dalton Serey, Jorge Figueiredo, and João Brunet. Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES)

2018

Improving Tail Latency of Stateful Cloud Services via GC Control and Load Shedding. Daniel Fireman, João Brunet, Raquel Lopes, David Quaresma and Thiago Emmanuel Pereira. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018).

Can students help themselves? An investigation of students feedback on the quality of the source code. José Raul Andrade and João Brunet. Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).

Automatic Decomposition of Java Open Source Pull Requests: a replication study. Victor Freire, João Brunet, and Jorge Figueiredo. International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM).

2017

Using Load Shedding to Fight Tail-Latency on Runtime-Based Services. Fireman, D.; Lopes, R; Brunet, J. XXIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC).

2015

Helping Developers Help Themselves: Automatic Decomposition of Code Review Changeset. Mike Barnett, Chris Bird, João Brunet, and Shuvendu Lahiri. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

2014

Five years of Software Architecture Checking: A Case Study of Eclipse. João Brunet, Gail C. Murphy, Dalton Serey, and Jorge Figueiredo. IEEE Software.

Do developers discuss design? João Brunet, Gail C. Murphy, Ricardo Terra, Jorge Figueiredo, and Dalton Serey. Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Challenge Track.

Experience with Using a Performance Predictor During Development: a Distributed Storage System Tale. Lauro Beltrao Costa, João Brunet, Lile Hattori, and Matei Ripeanu. International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing in Computational Science and Engineering.

2013

Measuring the Structural Similarity between Source Code Entities. Terra, Ricardo; BRUNET, João; Miranda, Luiz; Valente, Marco Túlio; Serey, Dalton; Castilho, Douglas and Bigonha, Roberto. International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE).

Verificação de Conformidade Arquitetural com Testes de Design – Um Estudo de Caso. I. Melo, J. Brunet, D. Guerrero, J. Figueiredo. I Workshop Brasileiro de Visualização, Evolução e Manutenção de Software (VEM – CBSoft).

2012

On the Evolutionary Nature of Architectural Violations. Brunet, João; Bittencourt, R . A, Serey, Dalton and Figueiredo, Jorge. International Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE).

2011

Structural Conformance Checking with Design Tests: An Evaluation of Usability and Scalability. Brunet, João; Serey, Dalton and Figueiredo, Jorge. International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).

2009

Design Tests: An Approach to Programmatically Check your Code Against Design Rules. Brunet, João; Guerreo, Dalton and Figueiredo, Jorge. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

Checking Code Against Design Rules with Design Tests. Brunet, João; Serey, Dalton and Figueiredo, Jorge. Fourth Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing, Student Forum.

2008

On The Precision And Accuracy Of Impact Analysis Techniques. Hattori, Lile; Serey, Dalton. Figueiredo, Jorge. Brunet, João. DAMÁSIO, Jemerson. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS).

UML-based Design Test Generation. Pires, W. F. N. ; Brunet, J. ; Ramalho, F. S. ; Guerrero, D. S. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC).