Matthias Weidlich
Since October 2018, Matthias has been a full professor at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). He joined the department in April 2015 as a junior professor, supported by German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Emmy-Noether Programme. Earlier, he worked as a research associate at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and as a research fellow and adjunct lecturer at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He holds PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam.
Matthias' research interests include data-driven approaches to the analysis of process-oriented systems, aka process mining, algorithms for efficient processing of streaming data, and models and methods for exploratory data analysis.
Profiles
Awards
- Distinguished Reviewer Award at VLDB 2023
- Best Paper Award at ACM DEBS'22: S. Purtzel, S. Akili, M. Weidlich: Predicate-based push-pull communication for distributed CEP.
- Best Student Paper Award at ICPM'21: S. A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, M. Kabierski, F. Rösel, H. van der Aa, M. Weidlich: SaCoFa: Semantics-aware Control-flow Anonymization for Process Mining.
- Distinguished Paper Award at CAiSE'21: M. Kabierski, S. A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, M. Weidlich: Privacy-Aware Process Performance Indicators: Framework and Release Mechanisms.
- Best Student Paper Award at ER'20: K. Winter, H. van der Aa, S. Rinderle-Ma, M. Weidlich: Assessing the Compliance of Business Process Models with Regulatory Documents.
- Runner-Up Best Paper Award at BPM'19: M. Bauer, H. van der Aa, M. Weidlich: Estimating Process Conformance by Trace Sampling and Result Approximation.
- Best Reviewer Award at Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), awarded in 2018
- Best Paper Award at BPM'17: A. Senderovich, M. Weidlich, A. Gal: Temporal Network Representation of Event Logs for Improved Performance Modelling in Business Processes.
- Runner-up for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2017, nominated by HU Berlin
- Berlin Young Scientist Award, awarded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin in 2016
- Junior-Fellow of the German Informatics Society (GI), awarded 2016
- Research Prize at the 'Forum for Excellent Young Scientists' 2016 by Stiftung Industrieforschung
- Grand Challenge Audience Award at ACM DEBS'14: R. Castro Fernandez, M. Weidlich, P. R. Pietzuch, A. Gal: Scalable stateful stream processing for smart grids.
- Grand Challenge Audience Award at ACM DEBS'13: A. Gal, S. Keren, M. Sondak, M. Weidlich, H. Blom, C. Bockermann: Grand challenge: the TechniBall system.
- Best Reviewer Award at BPM'12
- Runner-up for the Doctoral Dissertation Award in Computer Science by the German Informatics Society (GI)
- Best Paper Award at ICSOC'10: S. Smirnov, M. Weidlich, J. Mendling: Business Process Model Abstraction Based on Behavioral Profiles.
Scientific Service
- Steering Committee of the BPM conference series, since 2023
- Steering Committee of the ACM DEBS conference series, since 2017
- Co-Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems, since 2020
- Associate Editor of the VLDB Journal, since 2022
- Co-Section Editor of The Springer Encyclopedia on Big Data Technologies, since 2017, with M. Dumas
- Area Editor of Information Systems, 2015-2020
- PC Co-Chair: DEBS 2018, BPM 2015, WS-FM 2014. Workshop Co-Chair: ICPM 2022, BPM 2017. General Co-Chair: DEBS 2016.
- Senior PC and PC member: regularly for SIGMOD, VLDB, BPM, ICPM, ICDE, CAiSE, DEBS.
University Committees
- Head of Department, Department of Computer Science, since 2023
- Deputy Head of Department, Department of Computer Science, 2022 - 2023
- Elected member of the Academic Council of HU Berlin, since 2021
- Elected member of the Department Council, Department of Computer Science, since 2020
- Appointed member of the Committee for the Assessment of Scientific Misconduct at HU Berlin, since 2021 (chair since 2023)
- Member of the Examination Board, Department of Computer Science, 2018 - 2023
- Member of the Joint Committee for the Information Systems Program, since 2015