2019

• Research Productivity Grant – PQ 1D, Microelectronics Advisory Committee – CNPq.
• Co-advisor of the work awarded the Best Master’s Dissertation Prize in the area of Integrated Circuit Design, CAD, and Test (Luciano Braatz). Brazilian Microelectronics Society and National Center for Advanced Electronic Technology.
• Best Paper Award at SIM 2019 for the Paper ‘HEVC Video Coding Using Decision Trees for a Memory-Friendly Tiles Workload Balance’, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).

2018

• Advisor of the student awarded the 15th Outstanding Award in Scientific and Technological Initiation Category Exact Sciences, Earth, and Engineering (Iago Coelho Storch), CNPq.
• Best Paper Award at the 18th Student Forum (SFORUM 2018) for the paper “Energy-Aware HEVC Transrating based on Frame Partitioning Inheritance”, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Honorable Mention Award at the 31st Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI 2018) for the paper 3D-HEVC DMM-1 Parallelism Exploration Targeting Multicore Systems, IEEE, ACM, SBC, and SBMicro.

2017

• Senior Internship Grant  Abroad (Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal), CAPES.
• ACM Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery – ACM.
• Best Paper Award at the VII Brazilian Symposium on Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC) for the paper “Cache Memory Energy Efficiency Exploration for the HEVC Motion Estimation”, SBC, IFIP.
• Best Paper Award at SIM 2017 for the paper “High Speed Tiling Algorithm for Parallel HEVC Encoding”, SBC, SBMicro.

2016

• Research Productivity Grant – PQ2, Microelectronics Advisory Committee – CNPq.
• Honorable Mention at the XXXIV SBrT, for the paper “Evaluation of the maximum speedup potential using Tiles for parallel video compression according to the HEVC standard”, Brazilian Telecommunications Society.

2015

• Best Paper Award at the 28th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI) for the paper “Memory-Aware and High-Throughput Hardware Design for the HEVC Fractional Motion Estimation”, IEEE, ACM, SBC, and SBMicro.
• Best Paper Award at SIM 2015, for the paper A Hardware Architecture for an HEVC Motion Compensation Luminance Interpolator, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Advisor of the work awarded third place in the Exact Sciences area at the XXIV Scientific Initiation Congress (student Guilherme Povala), Federal University of Pelotas – UFPel.

2014

• Co-advisor of the paper awarded in the Engineering area at ENPOS 2014. Master’s student Dieison Soares Silveira., Graduate Meeting (ENPOS) at UFPel.
• Best Paper Award at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS), for the paper “Classification-Based Early Termination for Coding Tree Structure Decision in HEVC”, IEEE, IEEE CAS. 2013
• Research Productivity Grant – PQ2, Microelectronics Advisory Committee – CNPq.
• Patron Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2012/2.
• Co-advisor of the dissertation awarded in the SBMicro Thesis and Dissertation Competition as the Best Master’s Dissertation – Project, CAD, and Integrated Circuit Test Category (student Felipe Sampaio), SBMicro – Brazilian Microelectronics Society.
• Best Paper Award at SPL 2012, for the paper Memory Bandwidth Reduction in Video Coding Systems Through Context Adaptive Lossless Reference Frame Compression, SPL 2012 Organizing Committee.
• Best Paper Award – Circuits and Systems Design at SForum 2012 for the paper New Quarter Random Search Motion Estimation Algorithm: a Great Quality-Cost Trade-Off, Brazilian Microelectronics Society – SBMicro.
• Best Paper Award – Circuits and Systems Design at SIM 2013, for the paper Energy-Efficient Memory Hierarchy for Motion and Disparity Estimation in Multiview Video Coding, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Advisor of the work awarded first place in the Exact Sciences area in the oral modality at the XXII Scientific Initiation Congress (student José Cláudio de Souza Júnior), Federal University of Pelotas – UFPel.
• Co-advisor of the work awarded second place in the Exact Sciences area in the oral modality at the XXII Scientific Initiation Congress (student Henrique do Amarilho Maich), Federal University of Pelotas – UFPel.
• Co-advisor of the paper awarded second place in the Undergraduate Research Works Competition of SBC (student Jucemar Monteiro), Brazilian Computing Society – SBC.
• Advisor of the paper awarded in the oral mode of the Engineering area at ENPOS 2012. Master’s student Ricardo Garcia Jeske, Graduate Meeting (ENPOS) at UFPel.
• Co-advisor of the paper awarded in the poster mode of the Exact Sciences area at ENPOS 2012. Master’s student Vladimir Afonso. Graduate Meeting (ENPOS) at UFPel.
• Co-advisor of the work awarded first place in the exact sciences and earth area in the oral modality at the XXI Scientific Initiation Congress (student Vinícius Neves Possani), Federal University of Pelotas.

2011

• HiPEAC Paper Award for the paper “Run-Time Adaptive Energy-Aware Motion and Disparity Estimation in Multiview Video Coding”, published in ACM/IEEE/EDA 48th Design Automation Conference – DAC´11, European Network of Excellence on High-Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation HiPEAC.
• SPL 2011 Best Paper Award for the paper A H.264/AVC Quarter-Pixel Motion Estimation Refinement Architecture Targeting High-Resolution Video, IEEE CAS.
• IEEE Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE.
• Best Paper Award – Undergraduate Work at SIM 2011, for the paper Multilevel Data Reuse Scheme for Off-Chip Memory Accesses Reduction Applied to a Motion Estimation Architecture, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Best Paper Award at SForum 2011, for the paper “A Fast Random Based Motion Estimation Search Algorithm”, SBMicro – Brazilian Microelectronics Society.
• Co-advisor of the work awarded first place in the exact sciences area in the poster modality at the XX Scientific Initiation Congress (student Vinícius Neves Possani), Federal University of Pelotas.
• Advisor of the work awarded third place in the exact sciences area in the oral modality at the XX Scientific Initiation Congress (student Marcel Moscarelli Corrêa), Federal University of Pelotas.

2010

• Best Paper Award at AFMS 2010, for the paper Evaluating Two Implementations of the Component Responsible for Decoding Video and Audio in the Brazilian Digital TV Middleware, FTRA – Future Technology Research Association International – Korea.
• Best Paper Award – Undergraduate Work at SIM 2010, for the paper A Dedicated Hardware Solution for the H.264/AVC Half-Pixel Interpolation Unit, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Best Paper Award – Undergraduate Work at SIM 2010, for the paper A Low-Cost Real-Time Motion Estimation/Compensation Architecture for the H.264/AVC, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Best Undergraduate Paper Award at SForum 2010, for the paper Transistor Networks Design Using a Graph-Based Approach, SBMicro – Brazilian Microelectronics Society. Co-supervisor of the work awarded third place in the exact sciences area in the oral modality at the XIX Scientific Initiation Congress (student Vinícius Neves Possani), Federal University of Pelotas.
• Co-advisor of the work awarded second place in the exact sciences area in the poster modality at the XIX Scientific Initiation Congress (student Marco Beckmann), Federal University of Pelotas.

2009

• Honored Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2008/2.
• PhD Work – Best Paper Award at SIM 2009, for the paper SystemC Modeling for H.264/AVC Intra Frame Video Encoder, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Master Work – Best Paper Award at SIM 2009, for the paper A Real-Time H.264/AVC Main Profile Intra Frame Prediction Hardware Architecture for High Definition Video Coding, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Master Work – Mention of Honor at SIM 2009, for the paper H.264/AVC Variable Block Size Motion Estimation for Real-Time 1080HD Video Encoding, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).
• Undergraduate Work – Mention of Honor at SIM 2009, for the paper Dedicated Architecture for the T/Q/IQ/IT Loop Focusing the H.264/AVC Intra Prediction, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).

2008

• Honored Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2008/1.
• Best Poster Award at SForum 2008, for the paper Transient Fault-Tolerant Fast Adders Implemented in FPGAS, SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).

2007

• Honored Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2007/2.
• Best Paper in Multimedia Hardware and Image Sensor Technologies at PSIVT 2007 (Chile) for the paper A Pipelined 8×8 2-D Forward DCT Hardware Architecture for H.264/AVC High Profile Encoder, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
• Advisor of the work awarded first place in the exact sciences area at the XVI Scientific Initiation Congress (student Fabiane Konrad Rediess), Federal University of Pelotas.

2006

• Advisor of the work awarded first place in the engineering area at the XV Scientific Initiation Congress (student Fabiane Konrad Rediess), Federal University of Pelotas.
• Co-advisor of the work awarded third place in the engineering area at the XV Scientific Initiation Congress (student Guilherme Corrêa Ribeiro), Federal University of Pelotas.
• Honored Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2006/2.
• Recognition Tribute for Voluntary Work, Pelotas City Council.
• SPL 2006 Best Paper Award for the paper Forward and Inverse 2-D DCT Architectures for H.264/AVC Video Compression Directed to HDTV, SPL 2006 – Southern Programmable Logic Conference.
• Best Presentation of Work at SIM 2006 (student João Alberto Vortmman) with the paper Dedicated Hardware Architectures for H.264/AVC Exp-Golomb Coding and Decoding, SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).

2005

• Supervisor of the work awarded second place in the engineering area at the XIV Scientific Initiation Congress (student André Marcelo Coelho da Silva), Federal University of Pelotas.

2004

• Patron Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2004/2. Supervisor of the work awarded first place in the engineering area at the XIII Scientific Initiation Congress (student Marcelo Schiavon Porto), Federal University of Pelotas.

2003

• Supervisor of the work awarded first place in the engineering area at the XII Scientific Initiation Congress (student Thaísa Leal da Silva), Federal University of Pelotas. Honored Professor, Computer Science Graduates from UFPel – 2003/2.

2002

• Supervisor of the work awarded second place in the exact sciences area at the XI Scientific Initiation Congress (student Roger Endrigo Carvalho Porto), Federal University of Pelotas.