Received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, in 2007. Spent a year at the University of Michigan, during PhD, working with Prof. Stéphane Lafortune. Since June 2008, she became a tenured professor at the Electronics Engineering Department at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Mom of twins, born and raised during the career at the University. She is a co-developer of UltraDES, an open source library for modeling, analysis and control of Discrete Event Systems. Her research interests include discrete-event systems, supervisory control, optimization and their applications to manufacturing systems and cyber security.