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Current Employment

• Postdoc Researcher at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy
• Involved in the MATISSE EU project.

PhD

• Thesis Title: From Chance to Choice: Strategies to Attaining Resilience in Cyber-Physical Systems
• Funded by WASP Sweden
• EASElab (Empirical and Automated Software Eng. Lab), supervised by Prof. Patrizio Pelliccione and Prof. Thorsten Berger

MSc

• Thesis Title: An Architecture to Support Control Theoretical-based Verification of Goal-Oriented Adaptation
• Funded by CAPES
• Laboratory of Dependability in Software Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Genaína Nunes Rodrigues

Bc Engineering in Control and Automation

• Thesis Title: Prototyping and formal verification of autonomous system with real-time properties a case study at Body Sensor Network
• Relevant courses include Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, Database, Software Engineering, OOP, Real-time Systems, Control Theory, Elements of Automation.
• 1yr studies in Michigan, US. Awarded with the Science Without Borders study abroad scholarship financed by the Brazilian Government

Selected Publications

• Caldas, R., et al. "Runtime verification and field-based testing for ROS-based robotic systems", In Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE, 2024.
• Caldas, R., et al. "A hybrid approach combining control theory and AI for engineering self-adaptive systems.", In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), IEEE, 2020.
• Gil, EB, Caldas, R., et al. "Body sensor network A self-adaptive system exemplar in the healthcare domain.", In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), IEEE, 2021.
• Full list of publications: Scholar

Leader of the Safety and Robustness Core Technology Cluster

• 82 hr/yr
• Managing a group of circa 10 active PhD students from five universities in Sweden
• Organizing workshops, talks, meetings

Teaching Assistant

• Individual and group supervision on theoretical and technical issues
• Course organization, scheduling lectures, booking rooms, lecturing
• Courses include Software Evolution Project (450h), Software Engineering for Complex Systems (150h), Agile Development Project (165h), Requirements Engineering (130h).

Visiting Researcher

• Researching Runtime Verification and Testing in the Field for ROS-based Systems
• Financed by WASP Sweden and supported by GSSI

Research Assistant

• Building, programming, and experimenting on aerial unmanned vehicles under the supervision of Prof. James Mynderse.
• Financed by the program Science Without Borders CNPQ/CAPES

Research Assistant

• Exploratory research on the Quicksort algorithm and its applications under the supervision of Prof. Carla Koike
• Financed under the project Young Talents for Science CNPQ

Community Services

• Paper Reviews for the journals TAAS, TECS, and the conference ICRA.
• Paper Sub-Reviews for FSE, ICSE, ASE, and SEAMS conferences.
• Program Committee for the Workshop CASA, at the ECSA conference, since 2022-now.

Other Events

• 2024 ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). Presented "Towards an Engineering Discipline for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems", 2024. Doctoral Symposium.
• First Summer School on Robotic Mission Engineering. Universidade de Brasilia, Brasil. Presented "The Way Research on Software Engineering for Robotics." 2023. (Workshop).
• TAROT - Summer School on Software Testing, Verification & Validation. London, UK. 2023. (Summer School).
• WARA Public Safety Summer School. Linkoping, Sweden. 2023. (Summer School).
• WASP Winter Conference. Norrkoping, Sweden. Presented "Roboticists want to build resilient robots... but they can't!". 2023. (Conference).
• Robotics Software Engineering 2022. "Verification of ROS-based Systems Guidelines for Developers and QA teams." 2022. (Annual Meeting).
• 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOSC). Presented "Towards Mapping Control Theory and Software Engineering Properties using Specification Patterns". 2021. (Conference).
• 2021 International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS). Presented "Body Sensor Network A Self-Adaptive System Exemplar in the Healthcare Domain". 2021. (Conference).
• 2020 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and SelfManaging Systems. Presented "A Hybrid Approach Combining Control Theory and AI for Engineering Self-Adaptive Systems". 2020. (Conference).

Software Development Intern

• Research and Development team, supervision of Israel Mendonça and Oscar Pires
• Contributed to corrective and evolutive maintenance of a Telecom Expense Management software system
• Experimented with Test-driven Development with unit tests and continuous integration
• Assisted with requirements elicitation and project description for a mobile application

• Young Talents for Science

• Science Without Borders Study Abroad Program