Anna H. Reali Costa (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She investigated robot vision as a Research Scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. She was a Guest Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, working in the integration of machine learning, planning, and execution in intelligent systems. She is currently a Full Professor in computer engineering at USP. She is the Scientific Director of the Data Science Center (C2D), a partnership between USP and the Itaú-Unibanco Bank. She is a member of the Center for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), USP, a partnership with IBM and FAPESP. Her scientific contributions include artificial intelligence and machine learning, in particular reinforcement learning.