Speaker - Pedro Oliveira

Ph.D. student in Informatics with a focus on open-source software ecosystems, governance, and AI-supported collaboration. My research examines how communities structure decision-making, define roles, and sustain participation over time. I investigate governance models, contributor behavior, and project health through a combination of socio-technical theory, large-scale GitHub data analysis, and explainable machine learning. I develop predictive models to better understand developer turnover, contributor trajectories, and long-term sustainability in open-source projects. My broader goal is to bridge research and practice by designing tools, models, and frameworks that improve how software communities grow, collaborate, and sustain themselves over time.