[AISWorld] PhD Positions in Process Mining at TU Eindhoven/Perceptive Software

[Hajo Reijers]

The Architecture of Information Systems (AIS) of the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technische Universiteit
Eindhoven (TU/e) in collaboration with Perceptive Software, a
business unit of Lexmark International, are looking for

***** two PhD candidates to work on Process Mining *****

The Data Science Centre Eindhoven (DSC/e) is TU/e’s response to the
growing volume and importance of data (http://www.tue.nl/dsce/). One
of the initiatives of DSC/e is the "Adding Value to Network and Web
Data" Impulse program aiming at supporting excellent research and
more intensive collaboration with innovative organizations such as
Perceptive Software.

The AIS group is one of the leading groups in the exciting new
field of process mining (www.processmining.org). Process mining
techniques focus on process discovery (extracting process models
from event logs), conformance checking (comparing normative
models with the reality recorded in event logs), and extension
(extending models based on event logs). The work resulted in
the development of the ProM framework that is widely used
in industry and serves as a platform for new process mining
techniques used by research groups all over the globe. Moreover,
many of the techniques developed in the context of ProM have
been embedded in commercial tools. See also www.processmining.org.

Perceptive Software builds process and content management software
that help organizations to bring business processes under control
that deal with both structured and unstructured information (see
http://www.perceptivesoftware.com/). Its products include
state-of-the-art process management tools. The company and its
predecessor in the Netherlands, Pallas Athena, have been closely
working together with the AIS group for more than 15 years in
areas like process modeling, case handling, simulation, and
process mining. In 2012, the Perceptive BPM Research center was
established at TU/e to strengthen the mutual cooperation.

In the context of DSC/e's Impulse program we are looking for two
PhD candidates to work on process mining:

PhD 1 will work on the new process cube notion where ideas from
process mining, big data, and OLAP technologies are combined to
answer a variety of questions. Event data are sliced and diced and
one can drill-down to apply more detailed process mining analyses.
This is also closely related to managing collections of process
models, dealing with huge data sets, and distributed process
mining.

PhD 2 will work on analysis techniques that help organizations to
detect trends within their own operations on the basis of the
hybrid and vast amounts of data that are processed and stored by
the enterprise systems they use. The idea is to integrate outcomes
from process mining analyses, social network analyses, and natural
language processing to obtain new insights on how they perform as
a whole and for specific departments/products/customers.

These projects will be supervised by prof. Wil van der Aalst
(vdaalst.com) and prof. Hajo Reijers (reijers.com).


Requirements:

We are looking for two candidates that meet the following
requirements:
- a solid background in Computer Science or
Information Systems with an interest in process mining;
- knowledge of data mining and machine learning and/or process
modeling and formal methods (demonstrated by a relevant Master);
- candidates from non-Dutch or non-English speaking countries should
be prepared to prove their English language skills;
- good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and in
writing;
- moreover, candidates are expected to realize research ideas in
terms of prototype software, so software development skills are
needed.

Note that we are looking for candidates that really want to make a
difference and like to work on things that have a high practical
relevance while having the ability to work in one of the strongest
research groups in the world.


Appointment and salary:

PhD 1 will be employed by the TU/e using the standard conditions for
Dutch universities. See http://bit.ly/1dXqs3i for more information on
working at TU/e, salary, fringe benefits, etc.

PhD 2 will be employed by Perceptive Software as a junior
researcher. See http://www.perceptivesoftware.com/company/careers
for more information on a career within Perceptive Software.


Application: Interested candidates are requested to send an
application by e-mail to Mrs. Ine van der Ligt (e-mail:
wsinfsys at tue.nl) with the subject field "Process Mining Vacancies
AIS".

The application should consist of the following parts:
- motivational letter;
- a curriculum vitae;
- copies of diplomas.

Applications should be received by November 1st, 2013. In the
application, candidates should relate their expertise to process
mining research (cf. www.processmining.org) and describe their language
and software development skills.


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Prof.dr.ir. Hajo Reijers
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands
p: + 31 40 247 3629 / w: http://www.reijers.com/
t: @profBPM / b: http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/