PALOMA GUENES

Research in human aspects in software engineering, focusing on the Impostor Phenomenon in professionals.

Publications

Impostor Phenomenon in Software Engineers

P. Guenes, R. Tomaz, M. Kalinowski, M. T. Baldassarre and M.-A. Storey, "Impostor Phenomenon in Software Engineers" 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), Lisbon, Portugal, 2024, pp. 96–106.
DOI: 10.1145/3639475.3640114
Preprint: arXiv:2312.03966

Impostor Phenomenon Among Software Engineers: Investigating Gender Differences and Well-Being

P. Guenes, R. Tomaz, B. Trinkenreich, M. T. Baldassarre, M.-A. Storey, and M. Kalinowski, “Impostor Phenomenon Among Software Engineers: Investigating Gender Differences and Well-Being” in Proc. 2025 IEEE/ACM Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at ICSE (GEICSE), 2025, pp. 33–40.
DOI: 10.1109/GEICSE66911.2025.00009
Preprint: arXiv:2502.07914

A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Coaching to Mitigate the Impostor Phenomenon in Early-Career Software Engineers

P. Guenes, J. Leite, R. Tomaz, A. Araujo, J. Natividade, M. T. Baldassarre, and M. Kalinowski, “A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Coaching to Mitigate the Impostor Phenomenon in Early-Career Software Engineers” in Proc. 2026 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2026
DOI: 10.1145/3794860.3794903

Impostor Phenomenon as Human Debt: A Challenge to the Future of Software Engineering

P. Guenes, R. Tomaz, M. T. Baldassarre, and A. Serebrenik, “Impostor Phenomenon as Human Debt: A Challenge to the Future of Software Engineering” in Proc. 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering: Future of Software Engineering [ICSE-FoSE]
DOI: 10.1145/3793657.3793889

Awards

Top 3 Master's Dissertation in Brazil

Awarded third place for the best Master's dissertation in Software Engineering Brazil. CBSoft 2024.

Honorable mention

Honorable mention in the thesis and dissertation competition held by the Center for Science and Technology (CTC), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).