José Carlos Paiva

José Carlos Paiva holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (2025), with a thesis entitled Improving Feedback in the Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments Using Students' Past Solutions. He also completed his MSc and graduated in Computer Science from the same institution. Currently, he is a Full Stack Engineer and AI Specialist at the Pedagogical Innovation Center (CIP) of the Polytechnic of Porto. He has also collaborated as a researcher with the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), an R&D unit of INESC TEC, from 2014 to 2022. His main research interests include the automated assessment of programming tasks, gamification, e-learning, web-based learning, and machine learning.