Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
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Family
name, first names Academic
titles Nationality Date
of birth E-mail WWW Address |
van der Aalst,
Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius (Wil) Univ. Prof. Prof. h. c.
Dr. Dr. h. c. Ir. Dutch 29 January 1966 (Eersel,
The Netherlands) wvdaalst@pads.rwth-aachen.de www.vdaalst.com Lehrstuhl für Informatik 9
/ Process and Data Science Ahornstr.
55, Gebäude E2, Raum 6321 RWTH
Aachen University, D-52074 Aachen, Germany |
Education
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Sept 1988 - Sept 1992 |
Ph.D. in Mathematics Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands Thesis: “Timed Colored Petri Nets and Their
Application to Logistics” Advisors: prof.dr. J. Wessels and prof.dr. K.M. van Hee |
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Sept 1984 - Aug 1988 |
Bachelor
and Master in Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands Master thesis: "Specification and Simulation
using ExSpect" |
Current Positions
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since 2018 |
Professor RWTH Aachen
University RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany ·
Chair of the
Process and Data Science group (Lehrstuhl für Informatik 9) ·
Alexander von
Humboldt Professorship ·
Co-speaker and Principal
Investigator of the DFG Cluster of Excellence - Internet of Production (IoP) ·
Vice-Chair of
the Steering Committee of the RWTH Profile Area ICT ·
Founding
Director of the RWTH Artificial Intelligence Center |
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since 2021 |
Chief
Scientist at Celonis Guiding R&D activities, product strategy, and
academic alliance, München, Germany |
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since 2018 |
Lead
Scientist at Fraunhofer FIT Guiding process mining research at Fraunhofer FIT,
Sankt Augustin, Germany |
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since 2015 |
Member of
the Board of Governors Tilburg University Supervision of the executive board and chair of the
committee responsible for research and teaching at Tilburg University,
Tilburg, The Netherlands |
Other Ongoing (Unpaid) Professional Activities
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since 2002 |
Adjunct
Professor QUT Queensland University of Technology
(QUT), Brisbane, Australia |
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since 2016 |
FBK
Affiliated Fellow Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
Trento, Italy |
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ongoing |
Membership of Various Steering Committees ·
Member of the
steering committee of the International Conference Series on Application and
Theory of Petri nets (since 2003) ·
Member of the
steering committee of the International Conference Series on Business Process
Management (since 2003, chair from 2003-2017) ·
Member of the IEEE
Task Force on Process Mining (chair from 2009-2021) |
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ongoing |
Membership of Various Editorial Boards ·
Vice
editor-in-chief of Business & Information Systems Engineering (since
2015) ·
Series Editor
of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (since 2006) ·
Associate
editor of Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (since
2008) ·
Field
editor/associate editor of Computing (since 2012) ·
Member of the
advisory board of Distributed and Parallel Databases (since 2017) ·
Associate
editor of Computers in Industry (since 2000) ·
Associate
editor of SN Computer Science (since 2019) ·
Member of the
senior editorial board of the Annals of Computer Science and Information
Systems (ACSIS) (since 2015) ·
Associate
editor of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management (since 2006) ·
Senior editor
of the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems
Architectures (since 2005) ·
Member of the
editorial board of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (since 2009) ·
Member of the
editorial board of Software and Systems Modeling (since 2012) |
Previous Positions
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2011-2021 |
Member of the Advisory Board of Fluxicon Fluxicon, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands |
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2016-2021 |
Chief Scientific Advisor of Celonis Celonis, München, Germany |
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2016-2021 |
Chief Scientific Advisor of ProcessGold/UiPath ProcessGold/UiPath, Eindhoven, NL/New York, USA |
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2017-2021 |
Member of the Council for Physics and Technical
Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands |
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2012-2015 |
Academic
supervisor PAIS Lab and Professor HSE Scientific Director and co-founder of the
International Laboratory of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS Lab),
National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia |
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2000-2010 |
Full
Professor TU/e Chair of the Information Systems (IS) group of
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (from 2000-2006). Professor
in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Technology
Management Department. Director of the Business Information Systems master. |
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1999-2010 |
Visiting
Professor University of Colorado Working with prof. Skip Ellis, University of
Colorado, Boulder, USA (12 months) |
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1998-1999 |
Visiting
Professor University of Georgia Working with prof. Amit Sheth, University of Georgia
Athens, USA (6 months) |
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1998-1999 |
Visiting
Professor AIFB Karlsruhe Working with prof. Jörg Desel, University of
Karlsruhe, Germany (6 months) |
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1992 -1999 |
Assistant
/ Associate Professor TU/e Chair of the Specification and Modeling of
Information Systems group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands. Member of
the management team of the research institute BETA. |
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1998-1999 |
Research
assistant TNO and TU/e Working for the TNO institute IPL while doing a PhD
at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands. Member of the
TASTE working group |
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2008-2021 |
Membership
of Various Editorial Boards ·
Associate
editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A:
Systems and Humans (IEEE-SMC-A) (2011-2013) ·
Member of the
editorial board of Distributed and Parallel Databases (2008-2018) ·
Associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (2008-2016) ·
Associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2008-2010) ·
Associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2009-2013) |
Publication Record
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H-Index Citations Books Reviewed journal
papers Reviewed
conference/workshop papers Book chapters Other publications
(editorials, reports, etc.) |
170 (Google Scholar) > 130.000 (Google Scholar) > 35 (10 authored books and >25 edited books) > 275 (263 indexed by DBLP) > 630 (556 indexed by DBLP) > 85 (22 indexed by DBLP) > 310 |
Fellowships and Awards
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2022 2021 2020 2020 2020 2018 2013 2008 2014 2011 2013 2012 2015 2000 - now |
Elected member of acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering),
Germany IEEE Fellow Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ACM Fellow
Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) IFIP Fellow International Federation
for Information Processing (IFIP) Elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts,
Germany Alexander-von-Humboldt
Professor Award (five million euro), Germany Distinguished
University Professor of TU/e (Only five professors had this special position at
Eindhoven University of Technology) Elected member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke
Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen), NL Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke
Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen), NL Elected member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) Honorary guest professor at Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China Honorary
doctorate
from Hasselt University, Hasselt,
Belgium Honorary
professorship from Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Russia Over 35 best
paper and most influential paper awards (BPM, SoSym, ATPN, ICPM, BIS, etc.) |
Teaching Activities
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1992 - now |
Master
courses: Introduction to Data Science, Advanced Process Mining,
Business Process Management Systems, Workflow Management, and Simulation Bachelor
courses: Business Process Intelligence, Introduction to Process
Mining, Perspectives on Data Science, Business Information Systems, Systems
Engineering, Process Modeling, Business Process Management, and Specification
of Information Systems Online
courses: Four open online process mining courses, e.g., Process Mining: Data science in Action
(Coursera with > 158.000 registered participants) Course
and curriculum development: All of the above courses were
developed from scratch and taught for several years. Leadership roles (e.g.,
scientific director) in computer science, data science, and business
information systems programs at the bachelor and master level |