New PHD student – Laura Didden
On November 1st, 2025, Laura Didden started as a PhD student in the PA group. Laura will be working under the supervision of Francesca Zerbato. A big welcome to Laura!
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Best Paper Award for Irina Tentina, Iris Beerepoot, Xixi Lu, Hajo Reijers, Boudewijn van Dongen and Vinicius Stein Dani
Irina Tentina, Iris Beerepoot, Xixi Lu, Hajo Reijers, Boudewijn van Dongen and Vinicius Stein Dani have received the Best Paper Award At the EduPM 2025 workshop at ICPM 2025 with the paper titled “Challenges in Teaching Process Mining: Insights from Process Mining Educators”. Congratulations to Irina, Iris, Xixi, Hajo, Boudewijn and Vinicius!
Best Student Paper Award for Irina Tentina, Francesca Zerbato, Felix Mannhardt and Boudewijn van Dongen
Irina Tentina, Francesca Zerbato, Felix Mannhardt and Boudewijn van Dongen have received the Best Student Paper Award at ICPM 2025 for their paper titled “Who do users struggle to get insights out of Process Mining?”. Congratulations to Irina, Francesca, Felix and Boudewijn!
Best Reviewer Award at ICPM 2025 for Francesca Zerbato
Francesca Zerbato has received one of the two Best Reviewer Awards at ICPM 2025. Congratulations to Francesca!
New PhD student: Mădălina Rogozan
On September 15, 2025, Mădălina Rogozan started as a PhD student in the PA group. Mădălina will work under the supervision of Natalia Sidorova on the AIDE project on Conformance Checking: Timed, Stochastic, and Systemic Trace Insights. A big welcome to Mădălina!
ProM 6.15 released
Today, September 26th, ProM 6.15 has been released. This is the second release of ProM for which GitHub was used during development.
Best Student Paper Award at BPM 2025 for Maike Basmer, Hannes Ueck, Dirk Fahland and Matthias Weidlich
Maike Basmer, Hannes Ueck, Dirk Fahland and Matthias Weidlich have received the Best Student Paper Award at the BPM 2025 conference in Seville with the paper titled “MANTA: Materializing Views on Event Data for Context Exploration in Process Analysis“. Congratulations to Maike, Hannes, Dirk and Matthias!
New PhD student: Sjoerd van Straten
On August 18, 2025, Sjoerd van Straten started as a PhD student in the PA group. Sjoerd will work under the supervision of Marwan Hassani on a Eurotech project. A big welcome to Sjoerd!
New Assistant Professor: Gyunam Park
On July 1st, Gyunam Park started working as an Assistant Professor in the PA group. Gyunam will be working on the development of fair, compliant, transparent solutions to process-related problems. A big welcome to Gyunam!
Best Paper Award at SAC 2025 for You Xu and Marwan Hassani
You Xu and Marwan Hassani have received the Best Paper Award Distributed Systems in the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2025) in Catania, Italy with the paper titled “Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Spatial Encoding for Prediction in Traffic Networks with Expanding Infrastructure“. Congratulations to You and Marwan!
Yorick Spenrath’s PhD Research Featured in Cursor and Eindhovens Dagblad
Yorick Spenrath has recently been featured in both Cursor and Eindhovens Dagblad for his innovative research on predicting supermarket consumer behavior. Spenrath’s study, which analyzed close to 70 million receipts, focuses on how supermarkets can use mathematical models to understand and forecast customer participation in loyalty programs and promotional campaigns. Source: TU/e sharepoint
New PhD student and new scientific engineer: Liliia Aliakberova and Abd Alrhman Abu Sbeit
On November 1st, 2024, Liliia Aliakberova and Abd Alrhman Abu Sbeit started as a PhD student and scientific engineer in the PA group. Liliia will be working under the supervision of Francesca Zerbato, while Abd Alrhman will be working under the supervision of Dirk Fahland on the Auto-Twin project. A big welcome to Liliia and Read More …
New PhD student: Minshuo Li
On October 1st, 2024, Minshuo Li started as a PhD student in the PA group. He will be working under the supervision of Wim Nuijten, A big welcome to Minshuo!
ProM 6.14 released
Today, September 30st, ProM 6.14 has been released. This is the first release of ProM for which GitHub was used during development.
Best Paper Award at CAiSE’24 for Eva Klijn, Felix Mannhardt and Dirk Fahland
Eva Klijn, Felix Mannhardt and Dirk Fahland have received the Best Paper Award at CAiSE’24 for their paper titled “Multi-Perspective Concept Drift Detection: Including the Actor Perspective“. Congratulations to Eva, Felix and Dirk!
New Assistant Professor: Francesca Zerbato
On April 15th, Francesca Zerbato started working as an Assistant Professor in the PA group. Francesca will be working with Dirk Fahland on the design, development and evaluation of interactive tools and software artifacts that can support the real needs of human analysts when dealing with complex and knowledge-intensive tasks such as data sense-making. A Read More …
Three new PhD Students: Bram Biemans, Igor Smit en Puck te Rietmole
On November 18th, 2023, January 1st, 2024 and April 1st, 2024, Bram Biemans, Igor Smit and Puck te Rietmole started working as PhD students in the PA group. They will be working with Wim Nuijten on different projects. A big welcome to Bram, Igor and Puck!
New PhD-TA Student: Irina Tentina
On March 1st, Irina Tentina started working as a PhD-TA student in the PA group. Irina will be working with Boudewijn van Dongen and Felix Mannhardt. A big welcome to Irina!
First ELA AI workshop
On January 30, we had the first workshop of the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen AI Triangle. Researchers from Eindhoven, Leuven and Aachen shared their current work in progress on Process Mining.
New PhD student: Muskan
On December 1st, Muskan started working as PhD student in the PA group. Muskan will work under the supervision of Felix Mannhardt on the Smart Journey Mining project. A big welcome to Muskan!
New PhD student: Yvette van der Haas
On December 1st, Yvette van der Haas started working as PhD student in the PA group. Yvette will work under the supervision of Renata Medeiros de Carvalho on a project in cooperation with the St. Antonius hospital. A big welcome to Yvette!
New PostDoc: Allmin Susaiyah
On October 9th, Allmin Susaiyah started working as PostDoc in the PA group. Allmin will work under the supervision of Natalia Sidorova on the TACTICS project.
BPM Runner-Up Test-of-Time Award at BPM 2023 for Andreas Meyer, Luise Pufahl, Dirk Fahland and Mathias Weske
Andreas Meyer, Luise Pufahl, Dirk Fahland and Mathias Weske have received the BPM Runner-Up Test-of-Time Award at BPM 2023 for their paper titled “Modeling and Enacting Complex Data Dependencies in Business Processes“.
BPM Test-of-Time Award at BPM 2023 for Massimiliano de Leoni, Wil van der Aalst and Marcus Dees
Massimiliano de Leoni, Wil van der Aalst, and Marcus Dees have received the BPM Test-of-Time Award at BPM 2023 for their paper titled “A General Framework for Correlating Business Process Characteristics“.
New PostDoc: Freek van den Berg
On September 1st, Freek van den Berg started working as PostDoc in the PA group. Freek will work under the supervision of Dirk Fahland on the AUTO-TWIN project. A big welcome to Freek!
New PhD Student: Ava Swevels
On January 1st, Ava Swevels started working as PhD student in the PA group. Ava will work under the supervision of Dirk Fahland on the AUTO-TWIN project. A big welcome to Ava!
Best Paper Award at EdbA 2022 for Felix Mannhardt
Paul Kobialka, Felix Mannhardt, Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa and Einar Broch Johnsen have won the Best Paper Award at the EdbA 2022 workshop for their paper titled “Building User Journey Games from Multi-party Event Logs”. Congratulations to Paul, Felix, Silvia and Einar!
Best Reviewer Award at ICPM 2022 for Felix Mannhardt
Felix Mannhardt has won the Best Reviewer Award at ICPM 2022. Congratulations to Felix!
ProM 6.12 released
AlphaRevisitExperiments 6.12.20, by Aaron Küsters DiSCover 6.12.50, by Eric Verbeek ExogenousData 6.11.1, by Sander Leemans and Adam Banham ExtendedHybridMiner 6.12.9, by Humam Kourani and Chiara Di Francescomarini LongDistanceDependencies 6.12.19, by Sander Leemans LPMSupportedWords 6.12.4, by Mitchel Brunings StochasticLabelledPetriNets 6.12.44, by Sander Leemans, Fabrizio Maggi, and Marco Montali See also our ProM 6.12 development page.
Bart Hompes and Marcus Dees won the “BPM Innovation award” at BPM 2022
On September 14th, Bart Hompes and Marcus Dees won the “BPM Innovation award” with their submission “Detecting and mitigating the event log mutability problem at UWV (Uitvoeringsinstuut Werknemersverzekering)” to the Industry Forum at the BPM 2022 conference in Münster, Germany. Congratulations to Bart and Marcus!
Mitchel Brunings won the “Best Beaver Hunting Award” at Petri Nets 2022
On June 24th, Mitchel Brunings won the “Best Beaver Hunting Award” at the Petri Nets 2022 conference in Bergen, Norway. Mitchel was the only one to spot all 17 beavers. Congratulations to Mitchel!
Dirk Fahland received the “Best Teacher Award 2022” from Pattern
On May 25th, Dirk Fahland received from Pattern the “Best Teacher Award 2022” in the Bachelor Data Science major at Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University for his Data Challenge course. Congratulations to Dirk!
New PhD Student: Haseeb Tariq
On June 1st, Haseeb Tariq started working as PhD student in the PA group. Haseeb will work under the supervision of Marwan Hassani. A big welcome to Haseeb!
Best Presentation award at SA4PM 2021 workshop for Yorick Spenrath
Yorick Spenrath has won the Best Presentation award at the SA4PM 2021 workshop for his paper title “Online Prediction of Aggregated Retailer Consumer Behaviour“. Congratulations to Yorick!
Best Paper award at ICPM 2021 for Dominique Sommers
Dominique Sommers, Vlado Menkovski, and Dirk Fahland have won the Best Paper award at ICPM 2021 with their paper “Process Discovery using Graph Neural Networks“. Congratulations to Dominique, Vlado, and Dirk!
ProM 6.11 released
Today, October 13th, 2021, ProM 6.11 has been released. The framework of ProM 6.11 fixes a bug that resulted in an attempt to show a modal dialog even when using the (headless) CLI context. New packages in ProM 6.11 AdvancedEventLogFiltering 6.11.38, by Daniel Tacke genannt Unterberg CounterfactualExplanation 6.11.8, by Mahnaz Qafari ERPSimulator 6.11.1, by Gyunam Read More …
Test of Time award at BPM 2021 for Dirk Fahland
Dirk Fahland won the Test of Time award for the paper “Repairing Process Models to Reflect Reality” (co-authored by Wil van der Aalst, see also the journal version of this paper). Congratulations to Dirk!
New Lecturer Assistant
On August 2nd, Erandi Miranda started working as a lecturer assistant in the PA group. A big welcome to Erandi!