Activities

On this page, you can find all my research activities (other than publications), e.g., academic service, teaching, etc.

Software Projects

I have been playing an active role in the development of the following software packages:

• PMTK; Process Mining Toolkit; Co-Founder / Coordination / Software Development
• PM4Py; Process Mining Library for Python; Founder / Coordination / Software Development
• PM4KNIME; Process Mining Library for KNIME; Founder / Coordinator (to be released)
• RapidProM; Process Mining Library for RapidMiner; Coordination / Software Development
• ProM; Process Mining Toolkit, written in Java; Software Development

Teaching

At RWTH Aachen University I was involved in teaching the following courses:

• Advanced Process Mining; Summer Semester 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,2023; Responsible Lecturer
• ProSeminar on Data Pre-Processing; Winter Semester 2018; Supporting Lecturer

At Eindhoven University of Technology, I was involved in teaching the following courses:

• Advanced Process Mining
• Introduction to Process Mining
• Business Process Intelligence
• Meta-Modeling

Supervision

I supervised several PhD students (Sorted Chronologically):

1. Daniel Schuster; Interactive Process Discovery; Fraunhofer FIT;
   2019-2023
2. Humam Kourani; Partial Ordered Workflow Languages; Fraunhofer FIT; 2022 – 2023
3. Hannes Hafke; Event Data Driven Scheduling; Fraunhofer FIT; 2021-2022
4. Chiao-Yun Li; High-Level Performance Measurement & Prediction; Fraunhofer FIT;
   2019-2023
5. Mohammadreza Fani Sani; Data Preprocessing for Process Mining; TU/e & RWTH; 2017-2021
6. Luis Santos Ribriero; Interactive Performance Measurement & Prediction; RWTH; 2019-2020
7. Junxiong Gao; (Automated) Robotic Process Automation; RWTH;
   2019-2020
8. Mahsa Pourbafrani; Scenario-Based Prediction; RWTH;
   2018-2020

I am/was the primary supervisor of several MSc/BSc students in their final thesis project (Sorted Chronologically):

1. Christopher Bastin, BSc Student (Celonis) Active
2. Bernhard Zosel, MSc Student (Celonis); Active
3. Bart Binda, MSc Student (Celonis); Defended November 2024
4. Kai Weinreiss, MSc Student (Celonis); Defended October 2024
5. Jan Wieczorek, MSc Student (Celonis); Defended May 2024
6. Gero Kolhof, MSc Student (Celonis); Defended March 2024
7. David Wenderdel, MSc Student; Defended May 2023
8. Philipp Heisenberger, MSc Student; Defended August 2023
9. Alan Alrechah, MSc Student; Defended May 2023
10. Mark Limudjianto, MSc Student; Defended Nov. 2022
11. Tian Li, MSc Student; Defended May 2022
12. Tim Donkiewicz, MSc Student; Defended August 2022
13. Jonas Tai, BSc Student; Defended March 2022
14. Jan Wieczorek, BSc Student; Defended Dec. 2021
15. Xuan Zhang, MSc Student; Defended Jan. 2022
16. Sara Pashah, MSc Student; Defended Dec. 2021
17. Julian Walter-Nussberger, MSc Student; Defended March 2022
18. Harry Beyel, MSc Student; Defended Oct. 2021
19. Sezin Maden, MSc Student; Defended Nov. 2021
20. Anand Kumaraguru, MSc Student; Defended Aug. 2021
21. Eike-Albert Erdmann, MSc Student; Defended Jul. 2021
22. Moritz Langenberg, BSc Student; Defended Feb. 2021
23. Philipp Heisenberger, BSc Student; Defended Jan. 2021
24. Julian Schnitzler, BSc Student; Defended Nov. 2020
25. Yan Wo, MSc Student; Defended Oct. 2020
26. Jan Niklas Adams, MSc Student; Defended Sep. 2020
27. Niklas Dohmen, BSc Student; Defended June. 2020
28. Yi-Chan Tsai, MSc Student; Defended May 2020
29. Yukun Cao, MSc Student; Defended Feb. 2020
30. Ralf Riesen, BSc Student; Defended Jan. 2020
31. Zheqi Lyu, MSc Student; Defended Dec. 2019
32. Humam Kourani, BSc Student; Defended Oct. 2019
33. Daniel Schuster, MSc Student; Defended Jul. 2019
34. Kefang Ding, MSc Student; Defended May. 2019
35. Philip Klees, MSc Student; Defended 2017
36. Rene Slabbekoorn, MSc Student; Defended 2016

Distinctions

1. Best Paper Award; 21st International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM’23); (Paper: POWL: partially ordered workflow language; Humam Kourani, Sebastiaan J. van Zelst)
2. Best Paper Award; 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (EDOC’22); (Paper: Enhanced Transformation of BPMN Models with Cancellation Features; Giorgi Lomidze, Daniel Schuster, Chiao-Yun Li; Sebastiaan J. van Zelst)
3. Best Paper Award; Second International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EdbA’21) 2021; (Paper: Visualizing Trace Variants From Partially Ordered Event Data; Daniel Schuster, Lukas Schade, Sebastiaan J. van Zelst, Wil M.P. van der Aalst)
4. Distinguished Paper Award; 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) 2018; (Paper: Filtering Spurious Events from Event Streams of Business Processes; Sebastiaan J. van Zelst, Mohammadreza Fani Sani, Alireza Ostovar, Raffaele Conforti, Marcello La Rosa)

Academic Service

I act(ed) as a Program Chair:

1. Algorithms & Theories for the Analysis of Event Data (ATAED 2023) co-located with the 44th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency
2. 3rd International Workshop on Streaming Analytics for Process Mining (SA4PM) co-located with the 4th International Conference on Process Mining, 2022
3. Algorithms & Theories for the Analysis of Event Data (ATAED 2022) co-located with the 43rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency
4. 1st International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Process Mining (QAPM) co-located with the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 2022 (CaiSE 2022) (Event Canceled)
5. 2nd International Workshop on Streaming Analytics for Process Mining (SA4PM) co-located with the 3rd International Conference on Process Mining, 2021
6. 1st International Workshop on Streaming Algorithms for Process Mining (SA4PM) co-located with the 2nd International Conference on Process Mining, 2020
7. Demo Track of the 1st International Conference on Process Mining, 2019 (ICPM 2019)
8. Demo Track of the 40th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, 2019 (Petri Nets 2019)

I act(ed) as a Program Committee Member/Reviewer:

• Journals
  1. Acta Informatica – Springer
  2. Algorithms (Open Access Journal) – MDPI
  3. Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) – Springer
  4. Data & Knowledge Engineering – Elsevier
  5. Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery – Springer
  6. International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) – Springer
  7. Information Sciences – Elsevier
  8. Information Systems – Elsevier
  9. Journal of Biomedical Informatics – Elsevier
  10. Journal of Systems and Software – Elsevier
  11. Machine Learning – Springer
  12. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering – IEEE
  13. Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data – ACM
  14. Transactions on Services Computing – IEEE
• Conferences/Workshops
  1. 30th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2024)
  2. 5th International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2024); Research Track
  3. International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE’24); Co-Located with Petri Nets 2024
  4. 22nd Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2024); Engineering Track
  5. 29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2023)
  6. 5th International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2023); Research Track
  7. 21st Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2023); Engineering Track
  8. 4th International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2022); Main Track
  9. 20th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2022); Engineering Track
  10. 20th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2022); 18th Business Process Intelligence Workshop
  11. 28th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2022)
  12. 21st International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2022); Main Track
  13. 1st Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Process Analytics (ICPM 2021)
  14. 20th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2021); Main Track
  15. 19th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021); Industry Forum
  16. 19th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021); 17th Business Process Intelligence Workshop
  17. 19th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021); Foundations Track
  18. 19th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021); Engineering Track
  19. 3rd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2021); Main Track
  20. BPI Challenge 2020 (ICPM 2020)
  21. Industry form of BPM 2020
  22. 1st Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Process Analytics (ICPM 2020)
  23. 2nd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2020); Main Track
  24. 2nd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2020); Demonstration Track
  25. 18th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020); Engineering Track
  26. BPM Demos Track 2020 (BPM 2020)
  27. The AAAI-20 Workshop on Intelligent Process Automation (IPA-2020)
  28. BPM Demos Track 2019 (BPM 2019)
  29. BPI Challenge 2019 (ICPM 2019)
  30. 1st International Conference on Process Mining, 2019 (ICPM 2019); Main Track
  31. 17th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019); Engineering Track

(Invited) Talks

1. (June 2022) Industry 4.0 Maturity Center GmbH; Workshop “Process Mining in Production” for Professional Certification Course on Digital Transformation
2. (May 2022) Erium GmbH; “Process Mining Beyond the Hype; Webinar
3. (April 2022) Data Science Darmstadt; “Process Mining Beyond the Hype”; Webinar
4. (December 2021) Industry 4.0 Maturity Center GmbH; Workshop “Process Mining in Production” for Professional Certification Course on Digital Transformation
5. (June 2021) Hong Kong Productivity Council / FLAIR Webinar “Data Discovery in Manufacturing and Logistics by Process Mining Technology”: “Process Mining in Manufacgturing and Production: From Insights to Action and Improvement”
6. (April 2021) KNVI: “Process Mining in Python: PM4Py”
7. (April 2021) Ordina Data Driven Open Meetup; Inited Talk: “Process Mining and its Applications to Transaction Monitoring”
8. (Mar 2021) Niederrhein Data Science Summit; Invited Talk: “Process Mining: Where Data Science Meets your Processes”
9. (Dec 2020) Industry 4.0 Maturity Center GmbH; Workshop “Process Mining in Production” for Professional Certification Course on Digital Transformation
10. (Dec. 2020) University of Toronto; Invited Lecture in the BPMM course of Dr. Arik Senderovich
11. (Nov. 2020) AWK’20; Talk on Process Mining and Applications in Production; (in German)
12. (Sept. 2020) Tutorial on Process Mining using Scripting Languages (BPM Conference)
13. (Jul. 2020) Queensland University of Technology; Invited Tutorial on PM4Py
14. (Apr. 2020) Masaryk University; Invited Lecture on (Stream-Based) Process Mining
15. (Feb. 2020) Data Science Meetup Ordina; Nieuwegein; The Netherlands
16. (Jan. 2020) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Uni Kiel); Guest Lecture on Process Mining, hosted by Prof. Dr. Agnes Koschmider
17. (Nov. 2019) Lasaris Research Group; Masaryk University (Conf-Call); Stream-Based Process Mining
18. (Nov. 2019) PyData 2019 Eindhoven; Talk on Process Mining