Wil van der Aalst

Professor van der Aalst supports Celonis in accelerating its leadership in the process mining and execution management space. He works closely with the Celonis product and engineering organization and the Celonis Academic Alliance to advance process mining innovations in both the commercial and academic sectors. Professor van der Aalst has previously served as an independent Chief Scientific Advisor to Celonis.

Wil van der Aalst is widely credited as the inventor of process mining and the first to coin the term process mining in academics and in business. He is seen as one of the world's leading experts in process mining, business process management, workflow management, simulation, concurrency, and process modeling. He is also the author of the process mining industry's most seminal book "Process Mining: Data Science in Action".

Van der Aalst is considered one of the most cited computer scientists in the world (top-15 worldwide according to Guide2Research). He has published over 250 journal papers, 22 books (as author or editor), 550 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 80 book chapters.

Professor van der Aalst is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. He is also part-time affiliated with the Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT) and a member of the Board of Governors of Tilburg University. He has professorship positions at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane and is a Distinguished Fellow at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento. He is also an IEEE, ACM, and IFIP Fellow, and chair of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining.