Business Process Technology
Dr. Saimir Bala
Room: C-2.8
Email: saimir.bala@hpi.de
About
Saimir Bala is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Business Process Technology (BPT) group at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam, Germany. His research sits at the intersection of Software Engineering, Business Process Management, and Artificial Intelligence, with a particular focus on data-driven techniques for analyzing and improving complex processes.
He holds a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria. His doctoral work investigated ways to bridge Process Mining and Software Engineering, developing analytical methods for understanding the software development process through data. He has also collaborated with SAP Signavio and the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin on topics related to Lifecycle Processes and process transparency.
Saimir holds a BSc and a MSc in Distributed Systems from Sapienza University of Rome.
Research Interests
- Business Process Management
- Software Engineering
- Process Mining
- Artificial Intelligence
Profiles
LinkedIn | ResearchGate | Google Scholar | Personal Webpage
List of Publications
Theses
- Coming soon
Teaching
Summer Term 2026
- Master seminar on BPM meets AI [Moodle]