On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, Gabriell Alves de Araujo presented his undergraduate thesis entitled “A Study of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks with CUDA”. Gabriel is a student in the Computer Science course at the Polytechnic School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and a scientific initiation student at GMAP. The work was supervised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes and co-supervised by Dr. Dalvan Griebler (PNPD/PUCRS). The members of the examining board were Dr. Marcelo Veiga Neves (PUCRS) and Dr. Tiago Coelho Ferreto (PPGCC/PUCRS).