Research

PhD · 2026 – present

Multimodal AI reasoning

Treating non-text modalities as first-class inputs for long-horizon causal reasoning.

Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP)

Porto, Portugal

Papers

2026
APITestGenie: Generating Web API Tests from Requirements and API Specifications with LLMs
André Pereira, Bruno Lima, João Pascoal Faria
7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2026), co-located with ICSE 2026, Rio de Janeiro
- DOI for "APITestGenie: Generating Web API Tests from Requirements and API Specifications with LLMs" (opens in a new tab)
- arXiv for "APITestGenie: Generating Web API Tests from Requirements and API Specifications with LLMs" (opens in a new tab)
2024
APITestGenie: Automated API Test Generation through Generative AI
André Pereira, Bruno Lima, João Pascoal Faria
arXiv preprint
- arXiv for "APITestGenie: Automated API Test Generation through Generative AI" (opens in a new tab)

Events

2026
Summer school
LLMA4SE summer school (opens in a new tab)
Cáceres, Spain
2nd International Summer School on LLM-based Agents for Software Engineering, University of Extremadura, 9–11 September 2026.
2026
Talk
ICSE 2026
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Presented APITestGenie at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (2,000+ attendees).
2024
Summer school
Tsinghua University AI summer school
Beijing, China
Outstanding Accomplishment, top 3 of 40. Large language models, agent and multi-agent systems, domain-specific LLMs.