General

• 2007-2008 Intel Foundation PhD Fellowship.
  
  
• 2007 Wu Prize for Excellence, awarded by Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science for "upper-year graduate students who have performed at the highest level in courses, research, and teaching."
  
  
• Nominated for the Best Paper Award, 38th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-38), for the paper Automatic Thread Extraction with Decoupled Software Pipelining. November 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 2003-2004 Departmental Prize for Academic Merit, Princeton University Department of Computer Science.
  
  
• 2003-2004 PhD Fellowship, Princeton University Department of Computer Science.
  
  
• Best Computer Science Master's Thesis Award (2nd Prize), Nationwide Contest (75 submitted theses). XVI Theses and Dissertations Contest - Brazilian Computing Society. August 2003, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 2000-2002 CNPq/CAPES Graduate Fellowships, UNICAMP Institute of Computing.
  
  
• Highest GPA (9.60/10.0) in the Computer Engineering undergraduate program at Federal University of Rio Grande, among all students ever graduated in this course. May 2001, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
  
  
• Highest GPA (9.2/10.0) in the 1994 Data Processing class of the Technical and Industrial High School (CTI-FURG). December 1994, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
  
  
• Highest GPA (1st among 800+) in the year of 1993 at the Technical and Industrial High School (CTI-FURG) among all students (including all majors and grades). December 1993, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
  
  

Computer Science & Mathematics Competitions

• 30th place in the 2003 World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (out of 3850 teams all over the world). March 2003, Beverly Hills, USA. (coach)
  
  
• 1st place in Brazil and South America in the South American Regional of the ACM Programming Contest. November 2002, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. (coach)
  
  
• 3rd place in Brazil and 5th in South America in the South American Regional of the ACM Programming Contest. November 2001, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 1st place in the UNICAMP Programming Contest. September 2001, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 29h place in the 2001 World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (out of more than 2200 teams all over the world!). March 2001, Vancouver, Canada.
  
  
• Programming Excellence Award from the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society for the Computing Sciences, for participating in the 2001 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. March 2001, Vancouver, Canada.
  
  
• 1st place in Brazil and South America in the South American Regional of the ACM Programming Contest. November 2000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 1st place (graduate division) in the IV USP Programming Contest. August 2000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 1st place in Brazil and 4th in South America in the South American Regional of the ACM Programming Contest. November 1999, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
  
  
• 1st place (professional division) in the Brazilian Programming Olympiads through the Internet. September 1999, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 9th place in Brazil and 12th in South America in the South American Regional of the ACM Programming Contest. November 1998, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 3rd place in Brazil and 4th in South America in the South American Regional of the ACM Programming Contest. December 1997, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
  
  
• 1st place (high school division) in the 2nd Mathematics Olympiads of Rio Grande. December 1994, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.