Arthur ter Hofstede

Arthur ter Hofstede is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Head of the School of Information Systems at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He previously held a Professorship at Eindhoven University of Technology (2010–2018) and has been a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University (China), Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), and Sun Yat-sen University (since 2015). His research focuses on Business Process Automation (BPM), Process Mining, and Data Quality, with particular emphasis on the YAWL workflow system. He has supervised numerous PhD students in areas like process-data governance and gamified data cleaning. His work bridges academia and industry, addressing challenges in healthcare, insurance, and logistics. Key contributions include frameworks like ProcessProfiler3D for performance visualization and OrgMining 2.0 for organizational model mining. Awards include prestigious visiting scholar appointments and leadership roles in international collaborations.

Education: Ph.D. and M.Sc. from Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands). Research projects include Australian Competitive Grants on topics like cost-aware BPM and liquid process model collections. Notable publications explore event log imperfection patterns, privacy-preserving process mining, and robotic process automation integration.

• Grants: DP150103356 (Liquid Process Model Collections), DP120101624 (Cost-aware BPM)
• Labs/Teams: Centre for Data Science, YAWL Development Team
• International Collaborations: Sapienza University, Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-sen University