Wil van der Aalst#
| Membership Number: | 2912 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://vdaalst.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Chief Scientist at Celonis
- 2018 - present Full professor at RWTH Aachen University
- 2018 - present Lead Scientist at Fraunhofer FIT
- 2015 - present Member of the Board of Governors Tilburg University
- 2003 - present Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- 2000 - present Full Professor of Information systems at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 2002 - 2002 Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- 1999 - 2000 Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado, USA
- 1999 - 1999 Visiting Professor at the University of Georgia, USA
- 1998 - 1998 Visiting Professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1996 - 1999 Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 1993 - 1998 Part-time IT consultant at Bakkenist Management Consultants The Netherlands
- 1996 - 1999 Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 1988 - 1992 Research Assistant at TNO / Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Petri nets
- Process mining
- Business process management
- Conformance checking
- Simulation
- Data science
- Process science
- Process discovery
- Data mining
Honours and Awards
- IEEE Fellow (2021), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- ACM Fellow (2020), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- IFIP Fellow (2020), International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
- Elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Germany
- Alexander von Humboldt Award (2018)
- Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen)
- Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
- ISI Highly Cited Author
- Member of the editorial board of Distributed and Parallel Databases
- Member of the editorial advisory board of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- Member of the editorial board of Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of Wirtschaftsinformatik
- Associate editor of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
- Associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans (IEEE-SMC-A)
- Associate editor of the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures
- Associate editor of Computers in Industry (Business process management/workflow management)
- Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
- Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2008-2010)
- Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Associate editor of Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC)
- Member of the steering committee of the International Conference Series on Application and Theory of Petri nets
- Member of the steering committee of the International Workshop Series on Web Services and Formal Methods
- Chair of the steering committee of the International Conference Series on Business Process Management
- Co-founder of the BPM User Group Foundation
- Series Editor of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) by Springer
- Chair IEEE Task Force on Process Mining
