Saimir Bala
Postdoctoral Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSaimir Bala is a Postdoctoral Researcher based in Berlin with 11 years of experience at the intersection of Business Process Management, Process Mining and Software Engineering. He holds a PhD from WU Vienna and has translated academic insight into applied projects, including work on safety-critical, verifiable process management for engineering domains. His roles span research institutes and industry collaborations—from an internship in BI at NTT DATA to visiting researcher work at SAP Signavio focused on life-cycle processes. Saimir combines strong technical foundations in distributed systems with hands-on process mining and semantic technologies to deliver auditable, constraint-based monitoring solutions. He is adept at bridging theory and practice, having taught process management courses while contributing to industrial research projects in domains like railway safety. Colleagues describe him as a methodical researcher who favors pragmatic, reproducible approaches to complex process problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Social Sciences and Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Social Sciences and Economics at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Albanian, Italian, English, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
process-mining7
discovery4
business-process3
declarative2
docker1
bug-tracker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
s41m1r/thesis
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
s41m1r/MiningVCS
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 128 commits, 161 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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