PETRI NETS 2019 - Key Persons

Alex Yakovlev is Professor of Computer Systems Design at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, where he has been working since 1991. He received DSc from Newcastle University in 2006, and PhD from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (Russia) in 1982, both in the field of asynchronous systems. At Newcastle, since 2000 he is Head of Microsystems Group and Founder of Asynchronous Systems Lab, with 55 PhD alumni. He is an international pioneer of low-power asynchronous circuit design and design automation, for which he was elected to Fellow of IET in 2015, Fellow of IEEE in 2016 and Fellow RAEng in 2017. In 2018 He was awarded an IET Achievement Medal for contributions in electronic engineering. His team is well-known for contributions in designing asynchronous circuits, concurrent systems, Petri nets, metastability and synchronizers. His Signal Transition Graphs model underpin asynchronous design automation tools Petrify and Workcraft that are used worldwide in industry and academia. He has published 8 monographs and over 300 papers in top international journals and conferences. He has been Chair of the Steering Committee of ACSD since 2001.

Prof. Dr. Javier Esparza

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Member of the Program Committee
Chairman of Foundations of Software Reliability

Javier Esparza holds the Chair for Foundations of Software Reliability and Theoretical Computer Science at the Technische Universität München. He has co-authored two books and over 175 scientific papers in the fields of automatic program verification, program analysis, concurrency theory, and automata theory. Javier Esparza has made numerous contributions to the theory Petri nets, and was one of the initiators of the unfolding approach to model checking, the automata-theoretic approach to software model checking, and the verification of infinite-state systems. More recently he has conducted research on the fundamentals of program analysis and the verification of parameterized and stochastic systems. Javier Esparza received a honorary doctorate in Informatics from the Masaryk University of Brno in 2009, is member of Academia Europaea since 2011, and received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reisig

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Professor at the Computer Science Institute of Humboldt - Universität

Wolfgang Reisig is a full professor at the Computer Science Institute of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He served as a research assistant and assistant professor at the University of Bonn and at RWTH Aachen, a visiting professor at Hamburg University, a project manager at Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), and a professor at Technical University of Munich. Prof. Reisig was a senior research at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California in 1997, got the "Lady Davis Visiting Professorship" at the Technion, Haifa (Israel), the Beta Chair of Technical University of Eindhoven, and twice received an IBM Faculty Award for his contribution to Cross-organizational Business Processes and the Analysis of Service Models. He has been the speaker of a PhD school on Service Oriented Architectures, 2010 - 2017. Prof. Reisig is a member of a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea. He published and edited numerous books and articles on Petri Net Theory and Applications. During his time at GMD, 1984 - 1988, he worked in the "Institute for Information systems research", headed by Carl Adam Petri.

Prof. Jetty Kleijn - Chairman

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Chairman
Member of the Program Committee

Prof. Jörg Desel - Chairman

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Chairman

Prof.dr.ir. Wil van der Aalst

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General Chair
General Chair of the ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Professor at RWTH Aachen University

Prof.dr.ir. Wil 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) where he leads FIT's Process Mining group. His research interests include process mining, Petri nets, business process management, workflow management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published over 200 journal papers, 20 books (as author or editor), 450 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 65 book chapters. Next to serving on the editorial boards of over ten scientific journals, he is also playing an advisory role for several companies, including Fluxicon, Celonis, Processgold, and Bright Cape. Van der Aalst received honorary degrees from the Moscow Higher School of Economics (Prof. h.c.), Tsinghua University, and Hasselt University (Dr. h.c.). He is also an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, and the Academy of Europe. In 2017, he was awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship.

Robert Lorenz

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Member of the Program Committee

Roland Meyer

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Member of the Program Committee

Stefan Haar

st..@inria.fr

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Member of the Program Committee
France ( Co - Chair )

Susanna Donatelli

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Member of the Program Committee
Dipartimento Di Informatica, Universita Degli Studi Di Torino, Italy
Italy ( Co - Chair )

Wojciech Penczek

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Poland ( Co - Chair )