Wil van der Aalst

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wil M.P. van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966 in Eersel, North Brabant) is a Dutch computer scientist, and professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, where he chairs the Architecture of Information Systems group, His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation. He is also known for his work on workflow patterns.Van der Aalst was born on 29 January 1966, in Eersel in The Netherlands. He has received a MSc in computing science in 1988 at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), and a PhD in mathematics in 1992 with the thesis "Timed colored Petri nets and their application to logistics" under supervision of prof.dr. J. Wessels and prof.dr. K.M. van Hee.