Augusto Sampaio


Augusto Cezar Alves Sampaio is a Brazilian computer scientist who works with formal methods and language semantics.
Augusto Sampaio from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He graduated from the Centro de Informática at the Federal University of Pernambuco . He undertook his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir Tony Hoare at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. In 2013 Sampaio became Commander of the Scientific Merit Order, awarded by the Brazilian Science and Technology Ministry. In July 2016 Sampaio received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of York, UK.
Sampaio is a professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco. His main contributions are in the area of model transformations and automatic generation of test from formal models.