Permanent Professor of PPGI
Research Line: Applied Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Started at PPGI: 01/2007
Work regime: 40h Full Time
Sean Siqueira is Full Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil, where he currently teaches courses in Information Systems, and sociotechnical issues related to the digital world, digital transformation and digital humanities. He holds a M.Sc. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2005) in Computer Science, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. Currently enthusiastic about Philosophy and, more specifically, the Philosophy of Technology, with an approach applied to Information Systems and Educational and Social Technologies, exploring the development and use of more ethical, socially and environmentally aware technologies. Current research topics include Searching and Chatting as a Learning Process, Speculative Design based on entanglement theories, and systemic computational thinking. He has participated in some international research projects and has written more than 200 papers for conferences, journals, and book chapters. He was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Information Systems at UNIRIO from July 2012 to September 2014 and has been the coordinator again from October 2022 to April 2025. Furthermore, he coordinated the Program Committees of the Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems (SBSI 2015 and SBSI 2021), and the Brazilian Symposium on Computers and Education (SBIE 2012 and SBIE 2014), member of the steering committee of the Brazilian Congress of Computers and Education (CBIE 2015) and general chair of the CBIE 2024. He was editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Journal on Computers in Education (2016-2018), co-editor-in-chief of the iSYS: Brazilian Journal of Information Systems (2012-2016), and a member of the special committee on Computers in Education (CEIE) (2014-2018, 2021, 2023-2025) (coordinator 2023-2024, vice-coordinator 2024-2025) and of the special committee on Information Systems (CESI) (2015-2022, 2023-2026) (coordinator 2017-2018, vice-coordinator 2018-2019), both from the Brazilian Computer Society.
