Sarajane Marques Peres is Associate Professor at University of São Paulo where she works with computational intelligence, data mining and machine learning applied to process mining, text mining and gesture analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in Electric Engineering (2006) at the University of Campinas, a Master of Manufacturing Engineering (1999) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and a Bachelor in Computer Science (1996) at the State University of Maringá. She co-wrote a Data Mining textbook, published in Portuguese. She worked as guest researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at Utrecht University (Netherlands, 2018-2019), focusing on R&D in process mining.