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Saimir Bala is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Business Process Technology (BPT) Group and the Systems Cluster 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.
Prior to joining HPI, he was a Research Associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2021–2025). 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 is also a Fellow of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin.
Saimir holds a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome.
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