Jianwen Su

Jianwen Su is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has been since 1990. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and B.S./M.S. degrees from Fudan University in China. His research focuses on databases, formal verification, web services, business process management (BPM), and workflow systems. He has contributed to data-centric workflow modeling, artifact-based BPM frameworks, and tools like the Web Service Analysis Tool (WSAT).

• Adjunct professorships at Peking, Fudan, and Donghua Universities in China.
• Key roles: General co-chair of ICSOC 2013, PC chair of PODS 2009, and general chair of SIGMOD 2001.
• Recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Faculty Award (UCSB College of Engineering) and IBM Faculty Awards (2007, 2008).

Research spans database query languages, incremental query evaluation, spatial databases, and formal verification techniques for software systems. Current emphasis is on data modeling for workflows and BPM systems.