José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira is a doctoral student and researcher in the Gamification Group and also in the GPT Lab, Tampere University. His PhD research focuses on how to operationalise ethics in AI and in gamification through the use of Large Language Models, as well as exploring AI-assisted Software Engineering. He is part of the Convergence programme funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, a novel research field that addresses the future challenges and opportunities of the multidisciplinary convergence of humans and machines. Siqueira's main research interests are AI ethics, software engineering, Large Language Models and gamification. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Brasília and has worked as a software developer for Brazilian government agencies.
EDUCATION
Master's degree in Informatics (2021) and graduated in Computer Science (2017) at the University of Brasília (UnB). His Master's dissertation "Exploring Ethical Requirements Elicitation for Applications in the Context of AI" aims to explore AI ethics in theoretical field but with a main focus in operationalising AI ethics in practice providing a Guide for Artificial Intelligence Ethical Requirements Elicitation (RE4AI Ethical Guide).
The EU AI Act is a Good Start But Falls Short Chalisa Veesommai Sillberg, José Siqueira De Cerqueira, Pekka Sillberg, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Pekka Abrahamsson Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2025
Trustworthy LLMs for Ethically Aligned AI-based Systems: A PhD Research Plan Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2025
Grounded Ethical AI: A Demonstrative Approach with RAG-Enhanced Agents Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2025
Guide for Artificial Intelligence Ethical Requirements Elicitation - RE4AI Ethical Guide Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022
Ethical perspectives in AI: A two-folded exploratory study from literature and active development projects Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021
Exploratory Overview on Breaking CAPTCHAs Using the Theory of the Consolidated Meta-Analytic Approach Jose Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira, Paulo Santos de Almeida, Edna Dias Canedo, Gabriel de Oliveira Alves, William Ferreira Giozza, et al. Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Cisti, 2020 This study sought to provide an integrating model of the main contributions of the literature on CAPTCHAs with an impact in this field. With the expansion of internet access, there is an increasing need for a mechanism to protect websites from attacks, although there are situations where it is interesting to be able to automate some activities. This work consisted of identifying the most influential CAPTCHA-related academic works and trends in the field, which could serve as a metric on what approaches to take when developing new studies. Data such as main authors, current lines of research and more prolific research centers are arrived at using the Theory of the Consolidated Meta-analytic Approach. Inputting the keyword “captcha” in the Web of Science database, 539 records were found, from 2001 to 2020. The main classes retrieved are: (a) Captcha in Security Context (31.9%), (b) Usability in Captcha Design (28%), (c) Captcha Recognition by AI (21.8%), (d) Captcha Approaches and Novel Implementation Proposals (18.2%).
Barriers faced by women in software development projects Edna Dias Canedo, Heloise Acco Tives, Madianita Bogo Marioti, Fabiano Fagundes, José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira Information Switzerland, 2019 Computer science is a predominantly male field of study. Women face barriers while trying to insert themselves in the study of computer science. Those barriers extend to when women are exposed to the professional area of computer science. Despite decades of social fights for gender equity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and in computer science in general, few women participate in computer science, and some of the reasons include gender bias and lack of support for women when choosing a computer science career. Open source software development has been increasingly used by companies seeking the competitive advantages gained by team diversity. This diversification of the characteristics of team members includes, for example, the age of the participants, the level of experience, education and knowledge in the area, and their gender. In open source software projects women are underrepresented and a series of biases are involved in their participation. This paper conducts a systematic literature review with the objective of finding factors that could assist in increasing women’s interest in contributing to open source communities and software development projects. The main contributions of this paper are: (i) identification of factors that cause women’s lack of interest (engagement), (ii) possible solutions to increase the engagement of this public, (iii) to outline the profile of professional women who are participating in open source software projects and software development projects. The main findings of this research reveal that women are underrepresented in software development projects and in open source software projects. They represent less than 10% of the total developers and the main causes of this underrepresentation may be associated with their workplace conditions, which reflect male gender bias.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Specifying Fairness and Transparency Requirements for Public Benefit Allocation AAFC Vicenzi, JS de Cerqueira, P Abrahamsson, ED Canedo International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for … , 2026 2026
Mapping trustworthiness in large language models: A bibliometric analysis bridging theory to practice JS de Cerqueira, KK Kemell, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, P Abrahamsson arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04785 , 2025 2025 Citations: 17
Mapping Trustworthiness in Large Language Models: A Bibliometric Analysis Bridging Theory to Practice J Siqueira de Cerqueira, KK Kemell, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, ... arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2503.04785 , 2025 2025
Trustworthy LLMs for Ethically Aligned AI-based Systems: A PhD Research Plan JAS de Cerqueira, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, KK Kemell, P Abrahamsson RWTH Aachen , 2025 2025
Grounded Ethical AI: A Demonstrative Approach with RAG-Enhanced Agents JAS de Cerqueira, AA Khan, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, KK Kemell, ... RWTH Aachen , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
GPT versus Humans: Uncovering Ethical Concerns in Conversational Generative AI-empowered Multi-Robot Systems R Rousi, N Makitalo, H Samani, KK Kemell, JS de Cerqueira, V Vakkuri, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14009 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
The EU AI Act is a good start but falls short CV Sillberg, JS De Cerqueira, P Sillberg, KK Kemell, P Abrahamsson International Conference on Software Business, 114-130 , 2024 2024 Citations: 7
Timeless: A vision for the next generation of software development Z Rasheed, MA Sami, J Rasku, KK Kemell, Z Zhang, J Harjamaki, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08507 , 2024 2024 Citations: 6
Can we trust AI agents? a case study of an LLM-based multi-agent system for ethical AI JAS de Cerqueira, M Agbese, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, P Abrahamsson arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08881 , 2024 2024 Citations: 27
Can We Trust AI Agents? A Case Study of an LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Ethical AI JA Siqueira de Cerqueira, M Agbese, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, ... arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2411.08881 , 2024 2024
Guide for artificial intelligence ethical requirements elicitation-re4ai ethical guide JA Siqueira De Cerqueira, A Pinheiro De Azevedo, H Acco Tives, ... 2022 Citations: 6
Guide for Artificial Intelligence Ethical Requirements Elicitation-RE4AI Ethical Guide. JAS de Cerqueira, AP De Azevedo, HAT Leão, ED Canedo HICSS, 1-10 , 2022 2022 Citations: 26
Exploring ethical requirements elicitation for applications in the context of AI JAS Cerqueira, ED Canedo 2021 Citations: 5
Ethical guidelines and principles in the context of artificial intelligence JAS de Cerqueira, HA Tives, ED Canedo Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI) , 2021 2021 Citations: 14
Ethical Guidelines and Principles in the Context of Artificial Intelligence JA Siqueira de Cerqueira, H Acco Tives, E Dias Canedo Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems, 1-8 , 2021 2021 Citations: 4
Ethical perspectives in ai: A two-folded exploratory study from literature and active development projects JA Siqueira De Cerqueira, L Dos Santos Althoff, P Santos De Almeida, ... 2021 Citations: 14
Exploratory overview on breaking CAPTCHAs using the theory of the consolidated meta-analytic approach JAS de Cerqueira, PS de Almeida, ED Canedo, G de Oliveira Alves, ... 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI … , 2020 2020 Citations: 8
Barriers faced by women in software development projects ED Canedo, HA Tives, MB Marioti, F Fagundes, JAS de Cerqueira Information 10 (10), 309 , 2019 2019 Citations: 70
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Barriers faced by women in software development projects ED Canedo, HA Tives, MB Marioti, F Fagundes, JAS de Cerqueira Information 10 (10), 309 , 2019 2019 Citations: 70
Can we trust AI agents? a case study of an LLM-based multi-agent system for ethical AI JAS de Cerqueira, M Agbese, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, P Abrahamsson arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08881 , 2024 2024 Citations: 27
Guide for Artificial Intelligence Ethical Requirements Elicitation-RE4AI Ethical Guide. JAS de Cerqueira, AP De Azevedo, HAT Leão, ED Canedo HICSS, 1-10 , 2022 2022 Citations: 26
Mapping trustworthiness in large language models: A bibliometric analysis bridging theory to practice JS de Cerqueira, KK Kemell, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, P Abrahamsson arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04785 , 2025 2025 Citations: 17
Ethical guidelines and principles in the context of artificial intelligence JAS de Cerqueira, HA Tives, ED Canedo Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI) , 2021 2021 Citations: 14
Ethical perspectives in ai: A two-folded exploratory study from literature and active development projects JA Siqueira De Cerqueira, L Dos Santos Althoff, P Santos De Almeida, ... 2021 Citations: 14
Exploratory overview on breaking CAPTCHAs using the theory of the consolidated meta-analytic approach JAS de Cerqueira, PS de Almeida, ED Canedo, G de Oliveira Alves, ... 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI … , 2020 2020 Citations: 8
The EU AI Act is a good start but falls short CV Sillberg, JS De Cerqueira, P Sillberg, KK Kemell, P Abrahamsson International Conference on Software Business, 114-130 , 2024 2024 Citations: 7
Timeless: A vision for the next generation of software development Z Rasheed, MA Sami, J Rasku, KK Kemell, Z Zhang, J Harjamaki, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08507 , 2024 2024 Citations: 6
Guide for artificial intelligence ethical requirements elicitation-re4ai ethical guide JA Siqueira De Cerqueira, A Pinheiro De Azevedo, H Acco Tives, ... 2022 Citations: 6
Exploring ethical requirements elicitation for applications in the context of AI JAS Cerqueira, ED Canedo 2021 Citations: 5
Ethical Guidelines and Principles in the Context of Artificial Intelligence JA Siqueira de Cerqueira, H Acco Tives, E Dias Canedo Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems, 1-8 , 2021 2021 Citations: 4
Grounded Ethical AI: A Demonstrative Approach with RAG-Enhanced Agents JAS de Cerqueira, AA Khan, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, KK Kemell, ... RWTH Aachen , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
GPT versus Humans: Uncovering Ethical Concerns in Conversational Generative AI-empowered Multi-Robot Systems R Rousi, N Makitalo, H Samani, KK Kemell, JS de Cerqueira, V Vakkuri, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14009 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Specifying Fairness and Transparency Requirements for Public Benefit Allocation AAFC Vicenzi, JS de Cerqueira, P Abrahamsson, ED Canedo International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for … , 2026 2026
Mapping Trustworthiness in Large Language Models: A Bibliometric Analysis Bridging Theory to Practice J Siqueira de Cerqueira, KK Kemell, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, ... arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2503.04785 , 2025 2025
Trustworthy LLMs for Ethically Aligned AI-based Systems: A PhD Research Plan JAS de Cerqueira, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, KK Kemell, P Abrahamsson RWTH Aachen , 2025 2025
Can We Trust AI Agents? A Case Study of an LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Ethical AI JA Siqueira de Cerqueira, M Agbese, R Rousi, N Xi, J Hamari, ... arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2411.08881 , 2024 2024
RESEARCH OUTPUTS (PATENTS, SOFTWARE, PUBLICATIONS, PRODUCTS)
Guide for Artificial Intelligence Ethical Requirements Elicitation:
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Federal Data Processing Service (SERPRO),
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN).