Wil Van Der Aalst

Prof.dr.ir. Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of Information Systems at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e). He is also the Academic Supervisor of the International Laboratory of Process-Aware Information Systems of the National Research University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Moreover, since 2003 he has a part-time appointment at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research interests include workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published more than 160 journal papers, 17 books (as author or editor), 300 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 50 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited (he has an H-index of more than 102 according to Google Scholar, making him the European computer scientist with the highest H-index) and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees working on process support. He has been a co-chair of many conferences including the Business Process Management conference, the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, the International conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets, and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. In 2012, he received the degree of doctor honoris causa from Hasselt University. In 2013, he was appointed as Distinguished University Professor of TU/e. He is also a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) and the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea).

For more information about his work visit: www.workflowpatterns.com, www.workflowcourse.com, www.processmining.org, www.yawl-system.com, www.wvdaalst.com.

Specialties:Workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis Experience

Adjunct professor Queensland University of Technology 2002 – Present (14 years) full professor Eindhoven University of Technology January 2000 – Present (16 years 1 month) (Open)2 recommendations Kristina Šekrst Kristina Šekrst An analyst who turns speculation into reality, and a philosopher who does the opposite. Professor van der Aalst is a great teacher, who sacrificed his time and patience to provide us with the latest trend in...View Chanaka Munasinghe Chanaka Munasinghe Lecturer at University of Peradeniya,Faculty of Engineering Professor Wil van der Aalst is a very good teacher. I followed his “Process Mining: Data science in Action” course at...View professor Technische Universiteit Einhoven 2000 – Present (16 years) visiting professor University of Colorado at Boulder 1999 – 2000 (1 year) Skills

Top Skills 99+Business Process...

95Computer Science

54Process Modeling

48Algorithms

47Business Process Design

45Data Mining

35Artificial Intelligence

34Software Engineering

28Petri Nets

24Programming

Wil also knows about... 22Process Analysis 21Research 18Machine Learning 17UML 13Science 13LaTeX 12Workflow Management 10BPMN 8Software Development 7Distributed Systems 7Python 4Architecture 2Semantic Web 2Databases 2SOA See 2+ Education

Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology ir., computer science 1984 – 1988 Additional Info

Interests For more information on ongoing projects where Wil van der Aalst in involved in, see: - http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~wvdaalst/ - www.workflowpatterns.com - www.workflowcourse.com - www.processmining.org - www.yawl-system.com - www.bpmcenter.org Organizations