Jan Vanthienen is professor of information systems at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Information Systems Group, where he is teaching courses on business intelligence, systems analysis, business information systems and information management.

His current research interests include information and knowledge management, business rules & processes, business intelligence, information systems analysis and design, computer based training. He is a founding member of the Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS), and a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

He is chairholder of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Chair on E-Business at K.U.Leuven, co-chairholder of the Microsoft Research Chair on Intelligent Environments. He received the Belgian Francqui Chair 2009 at FUNDP and is co-founder and president-elect of the Benelux Association for Information Systems (BENAIS). In the past, he was director of the Postgraduate Program in Management (K.U.Leuven) and, as vice-chairman of the Department of Applied Economics, director of research.

• Licentiaat-Doctorandus in de Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen en de Beleidsinformatica – K.U.Leuven – Department of Applied Economics – 1979
• Doctor in Applied Economics – K.U.Leuven – Department of Applied Economics – 1986

• Recipient of the Belgian Francqui Chair 2009 at FUNDP.
• Best paper award, RuleML 2007, “Specifying Process-Aware Access Control Rules in SBVR”, S. Goedertier, C. Mues and J. Vanthienen, The international RuleML Symposium, Orlando, 2007.
• The session "How business rules (re)define business processes" at the Business Rules Forum (Washington DC, Nov 5-9, 2007), received 5 nominations for the Top 3 Speakers at the Forum.
• The session “Specification, verification and implementation of business rules: some real-world examples” at the European Business Rules Conference, (Zürich, June 26-27, 2002) was rated in the top three for both content (91%) and presentation (95%).
• VIAENE S., BAESENS B., DEDENE G., VANTHIENEN J., VAN DEN POEL D., Proof running two state-of-the-art pattern recognition techniques in the field of direct marketing, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’2002), Ciudad Real, Spain, pp. 446-454, April 2002. Best paper nomination

Research Projects:

• (2009) Bilateral scientific cooperation project K.U.Leuven - Tsinghua University, Project 3H051154, Intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning systems, 2009 – 2010
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen
• (2006) Nationale Bank van België - NB/06/08, Het ontwikkelen en valideren van risicomodellen in de context van Basel II, 2007
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen, B. Baesens; Research Fellow: J. Huysmans
• (2005) Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen), Project FWO G.0615.05, Using business intelligence techniques for risk profiling of economic entities, 2005 – 2008.
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: D. Martens
• (2004) Belgian Science Policy Office (AGORA project) – AG/01/06, INFO-NS: Intelligent exploitation tools for nonstructured information for the Belgian federal police, 2004-2005.
  Co-promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: N. Kumar
• (2003) Research Fund K.U.Leuven OT/03/12, Knowledge discovery for customer scoring using neural networks and support vector machines, 01/10/2003-30/09/2007
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: J. Huysmans
• (2003) Project DWTC, Agora, AG/031/082, Oprichting van een centrale databank voor de coördinatie van de controles van het personen- en goederenvervoer (Directie Controle & Transportorganisatoren van het Directoraat generaal Vervoer te Land van de FOD Mobiliteit en Vervoer), 01/01/2003-31/12/2003 FEDERAL OFFICE FOR SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: Ch. Mues
• (1997) Project BWTS97/01 Bilaterale Wetenschappelijke en Technologische Samenwerking met Polen (Wroclaw University of Economics) “Knowledge acquisition and intelligent distributed learning in resolving managerial issues”, Vlaamse regering, administratie wetenschap en innovatie, 10/12/97-10/3/2001
  hoofdpromotor: L.U.C., Co-promotor: J. Vanthienen
• (1995) Research Project F.W.O. nr. G.O135.95 “Ontwerp van methoden voor ontwikkeling, validatie en implementatie van kennisgebaseerde informatiesystemen”, 1/1/95-31/12/00
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen, co-promotor: M. Verhelst; Research Fellow: Ch. Mues, G. Wets
• (1994) Research Fund K.U.Leuven OT/94/2: Development of methods for the design, validation and implementation of knowledge based information systems, 1994
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen, co-promotor: M. Verhelst; Research Fellow: A. Aerts, Ch. Mues
• LIRIS (Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems)

Educational Projects:

• (2007) OOF project Onderwijsontwikkelingsfonds Associatie K.U.Leuven - OOF2007/29, Persoonlijk Informatiebeheer, 2007-2009.
  Co-promotor: J. Vanthienen
• (2005) Research Grants K.U.Leuven Educational Council, Project JVT/DV/OOI/2005, MIRO: Modeloplossingen van bestuurlijke Informatiesystemen in een inteRactief geïntegreerd Onderwijsplatform, 2005 – 2007.
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: B. Weynants(2003)
• K.U.Leuven convenantproject: CHEOPS, 2003-2005
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: J. Tisaun
• (2000) OOI-project K.U.Leuven: Integrated implementation of self-test environments in the ETEW curricula (GIZEH), 2000–2002, RESEARCH GRANT K.U.LEUVEN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: D. Vanderbist
• (1995) Educational project Impulsprogramma Onderwijs Departement TEW, 1995 "Bevorderen van zelfstudie door middel van uitwisseling via het Internet van extra studiemateriaal
  Promotors: J. Vanthienen; F. Put
• (1994) Educational project ‘onderwijsvernieuwing en zelfstudie’ Onderwijsraad K.U.Leuven (GeBu 479/l/1117)
  Computergesteund onderwijs van informatica-toepassingen, (1 februari 1994-31 januari 1995)
  Promotor: J. Vanthienen; Research Fellow: G. Wets

PhD students:

• 16 september 2009: doctoraat Stijn Goedertier, K.U.Leuven, ETEW, ‘Declarative techniques for modeling and mining business processes’, promotor: J. Vanthienen
• 8 januari 2008: doctoraat David Martens, K.U.Leuven, ETEW, 'Building Acceptable Classification Models for Financial Engineering Applications', promotor: J. Vanthienen, B. Baesens
• 13 juni 2007: doctoraat Johan Huysmans, K.U.Leuven, ETEW, 'Comprehensive Predictive Models: New Methods and Insights', promotor: J. Vanthienen
• 24 september 2003: doctoraat Bart Baesens, K.U.Leuven, ETEW, ‘Developing Intelligent Systems for Credit Scoring using Machine Learning Techniques’, promotor: J. Vanthienen
• 12 november 2002: doctoraat Christophe Mues, K.U.Leuven, ETEW, ‘On the use of decision tables and diagrams in knowledge modeling and verification ‘, promotor: J. Vanthienen
• 7 april 1998: doctoraat Geert Wets, 'Decision Tables in Knowledge-Based Systems: Adding Knowledge Discovery and Fuzzy Concepts to the Decision Table Formalism', T.U. Eindhoven, (promotors Prof. dr. H. Timmermans (T.U.Eindhoven), Prof. dr. J. Vanthienen)
• 8 juli 1996: doctoraat Carine Van den Acker, K.U.Leuven, ETEW, 'Belief-function Theory and its Application to the Modeling of Uncertainty in Financial Statement Auditing’, promotor: J. Vanthienen

PhD Committees:

• Yan Tang, On Semantic Decision Tables, (promotor: Prof. Dr. Robert Meersman); VUB, Oct 20th, 2009
• Mieke Jans, Internal Fraud Risk Reduction by Data Mining and Process Mining: Framework and Case Study, (promotor: Prof. dr. N. Lybaert), Uhasselt, Oct 9th, 2009
• Irene Vanderfeesten, Product-Based Design and Support of Workflow Processes, (promotor: Prof. Dir. Ir. W.M.P. van der Aalst), TU/e Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Feb 3rd, 2009.
• mei 2002: doctoraat Tony Van Gestel, 'From Linear to Kernel Based Methods in Classification, Modelling and Prediction', K.U.Leuven, Toegepaste Wetenschappen (lid van de jury: Prof. dr. J. Vanthienen)
• 5 juli 1999: doctoraat Wilfried Lemahieu, 'Improved Naviation and Maintenance through an Object-Oriented Approach to Hypermedia Modelling', K.U.Leuven, (lid van de commissie: Prof. dr. J. Vanthienen)
• 10 september 1998: doctoraat Frank Witlox, 'Modelling Site Selection: A Relational Matching Approach Based on Fuzzy Decision Tables', T.U. Eindhoven, (lid van de promotiecommissie: Prof. dr. J. Vanthienen)
• Lid van de doctorale commissie van het proefschrift 'Structured approach to information systems modelling', Wu Guang, K.U.Leuven, june 1995
• Lid van de doctorale commissie van het proefschrift 'Design of Fuzzy Relational Databases based on Fuzzy Functional Dependency', Guoqing Chen, K.U.Leuven, 4 december 1992
• Lid van de doctorale commissie van het proefschrift 'Hierarchical Credibility Techniques', T. Bauwelinckx, K.U.Leuven, 7 januari 1992
• Opponens bij doctoraal proefschrift 'In de Regel Beslist', Een beschouwing over regelgeving met behulp van beslissingstabellen, R. Overhoff & L. Molenaar, R.U.Leiden, 1 mei 1991

Other Scientific Activities:

• Chairholder, PricewaterhouseCoopers Chair on E-business, 2000-2005
• Co-chairholder of the Microsoft Research Chair on Intelligent Environments, 2006-

Program Chair

• ReMoD 08, Regulations Modelling and Deployment, Workshop in conjunction with Caise 08, Montpellier, June 2008.

• EUROVAV 97, Co-chair and organizer, European Symposium on Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems, Leuven, june 26-28, 1997 (with F. Van Harmelen, UvA).

Member of the programme committee

• JCKBSE 2010, BPM 2009, ABIS 2009, edBPM 2009, EIS 2009, GRCIS 2009, RuleML 2009
• SIGSAND-Europe 2008, RuleML 2008, ReMoD 2008, EIS 2008
• GRCIS 2008, Workshop on Governance, Risk, and Compliance in Information Systems, in conjunction with Caise 08, Montpellier, June 2008.
• Workshop on Governance, Risk and Compliance in Web Information Systems, in conjunction with 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 3-7 December, 2007, Nancy, France.
• ICETE 2006, International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, Setubal (Portugal), 7-10 aug. 2006.
• IICAI 05, 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pune, INDIA, December 20-22 2005.
• ICEC 2004, Sixth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Delft, October 25-27, 2004.
• KAM 2004, Twelfth Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management, Kule, Poland, May 2004.
• EUROVAV 99, European Symposium on Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems, Oslo, June 9-11, 1999.
• KDD, 7th Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Szklarska Poręba, Poland, May 14-16, 1999.
• Informatiewetenschap 1998: Bouwen aan het Informatielandschap, UIA, Antwerpen, 11 december 1998.
• KR 98, International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, workshop on Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems, Trento (It), june 1998.
• AAAI Workshop on Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems, American Association for Artificial Inteligence (AAAI), Portland (Oregon), august 1996.
• ECAI Workshop on Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Budapest, august 1996.

Member of the Editorial Board

• Member of the Editorial Board of Expert Systems with Applications (2002 - ).
• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Digital Accounting (2001 - ).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Informatie (tenHagen&Stam), (95 - 99).

Editor

• Special issue editor (with Bart Baesens, Christophe Mues, Tony Van Gestel) of Expert Systems with Applications: intelligent information systems for financial engineering, Volume 30, Issue 3, April 2006.
• Beleidsinformatica Tijdschrift (82-89).

Reviewer

• Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2007.
• ICDM 2006, 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining.
• ICIS 2005, International Conference on Information Systems, track: Web-based Information Systems and Applications.
• EJOR, European Journal of Operational Research, 2003.
• TAI 1993, Fifth Intl Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 8-11, 1993, Boston (Mass.).
• The Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, UK, 1994.

Other Academic activities:

• Organiser (with Bart Baesens) of Credit Scoring Workshop, March 11 and Sept 25, 2003, Leuven

Membership of scientific/professional organisations:

• Co-founder of the Benelux Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), named BENAIS
• Founder of the Belgian Business Rules Forum
• Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Member of IEEE/Computer Society
• Member of SAI (Studiecentrum Automatische Informatieverwerking)
• Member of LIRIS (Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems)
• Member of CBL (Contactgroep Beleidsinformatici Leuven)
• Member of ICR (Interdisciplinair Centrum voor Recht en Informatica)