2008 - FIRST RUNNER-UP in the 2008 NN5 Forecasting Competition for Artificial Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008).
2007 - FIRST RUNNER-UP. The 11th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference Competition (PAKDD 2007), SAS Institute (China) and the Singapore Institute of Statistics.
2007 - Best Innovation Product (NEURALPROFILER). 17th International Congress of Bank Automation (CIAB 2007), Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN) and Software Technology Institute (ITS).
2007 - Paper Award (Honour Mention) 6th National Meeting on Artificial Intelligence (ENIA 2007). "Hybrid Swarm System for Time Series Forecasting", Brazilian Computing Society (SBC).
2007 - FIRST RUNNER-UP na 2006-2007 NN3 Artificial Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence Forecasting Competition, SAS Institute & The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF)
2006 - Executive Management Award in Research & Development Project, Pernambuco Power Distribution Company (CELPE)
2005 - Best Paper. 6th Automation Symposium on Electrical Systems, National Brazilian Comittee on Production and Transmission of Power Energy,-CIGRÉ Brasil
2002 - Empreendedor INOVAR, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
2001 - Enterprise Channeling Opportunities (ECHO Project) Award., World Economic Forum (WEF)
1997 - Awarded Supervision - FIRST RUNNER-UP on the 16th Scientific Initiation Work, 17th Brazilian Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC)
1989 - Champion Award - 8th Scientific Initiation Work, 17th Brazilian Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC)