Process analytics · AI · Padova

Alessandro Padella

Post-doctoral researcher in Business Analytics, exploring how AI can read, predict, and improve real-world processes—fairly and transparently.

Ph.D. BMCS @ UNIPD Process mining & prescriptive analytics

Short bio

Post-doctoral researcher in Business Analytics at the University of Padova. I earned my Ph.D. in Brain, Mind and Computer Science (process analytics track) at the same university.

Research interests

  • Process mining
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Fairness
  • Predictive & prescriptive analytics
  • Event-log augmentation
  • Resource allocation
  • Explainability

Timeline

  • Born in Tavernelle (Perugia)

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics @ UniPG

  • Moved to Padova

  • Master’s degree in Data Science @ UNIPD

  • Ph.D. in Brain, Mind and Computer Science (process analytics) @ UNIPD

  • Guest researcher at TU/e Eindhoven

  • Post-doctoral researcher in process analytics @ UNIPD

Awards

Best BPM Dissertation Award — runner-up

2025 · International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM)

Publications

Selected work; the full list lives on DBLP.

Highlights below. For the complete bibliography see my dblp page or download my CV.

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

Teaching

Courses

  • Teaching assistant — Database and Modeling, Bachelor in Computer Science, 2021–2025
  • Professor — Fundamentals of Computer Science, Psychology Faculty, University of Padova, 2025–present

Thesis supervision

  • Ongoing: Otto Wantland (Erasmus Mundus) — “Explainable OCEL Process Predictive Monitoring”
  • 2025: Letizia Cimbro (MSc Data Science) — “Constrained Event-Log Augmentation”
  • 2023: Jiani Wu (Data Science M.Sc.) — “Techniques for Discovering Event-Log Generative Models”
  • 2023: Mohammed Ismail Tirmizi (Erasmus Mundus) — “Prescriptive Process Analytics using Counterfacts”
  • 2022: Michele Gatto (Computer Science) — “Design and Development of a Graphical Interface for a Business Process Instance Recommendation System”

Curious about a thesis on processes, logs, or AI? Write me.