Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen

Personal Summary

Stephan Fahrenkrog-Petersen is an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) for Information Systems & Process Science at the University of Liechtenstein. Previously, he was a research group lead at the Weizenbaum Institute. He graduated with his PhD in Computer Science from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2023. His research was published in the proceedings of the premier conferences in the field (AAAI, BPM, CAiSE, ICPM) and in international journals such as Information Systems, ACM TMIS, and KAIS. His work was recognized with the Best Process Mining PhD Dissertation Award 2023, the Distinguished Paper Award at CAiSE 2021, and the Best Student Paper Award at ICPM 2021.

He collaborates with scholars from around the world from prestigious academic institutions such as the University of Toronto, UC Irvine, Eindhoven University of Technology or the University of Tartu. Some of his international research was supported through the German Academic Exchance Service (DAAD). As part of his networking activities he is a member of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining.

Furthermore, he is an experienced educator, certified by the Berlin Centre of Higher Education. As part of his teaching he invented new innovative courses, such as "How to Win a Turing Award", a seminar that enabled undergraduates to learn more about the most important research in Computer Science. For several of his courses he collaborated with industry partners such as Hilti, KPMG (Formerly: QuadriO) and Camunda. In addition to his regular teching activities he was involved in the supervision of many bachelor & master thesis project, resulting in several peer-reviewed publications. 

News

• Sep 4, 2025: The paper 'The Impact of Event Data Partitioning on Privacy-aware Process Discovery' was selected the Best Paper at the Responsible BPM Forum 2025!

• Aug 1, 2025: I started my new job as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Information Systems and Process Science at the University of Liechtenstein!

• July  11, 2025: Three of my papers have been (conditionally) accepted for ICPM! See you in Montevideo!

• June 30, 2025: My paper 'The Impact of Event Data Partitioning on Privacy-aware Process Discovery' was accepted for the Responsible BPM Forum 2025!

• Dec. 10, 2024: My paper 'Privacy-and-Utility-Aware Publishing of Schedules' was accepted for AAAI 2025!

• Oct. 17, 2024: I was honored with the Best Reviewer Award at ICPM 2024 in Copenhagen! 

• Sept. 12, 2024: My paper 'Control-flow Reconstruction Attacks on Business Process Models' was nominated for the Best Paper Award at EDOC 2024.

• July 24, 2024:  Three of my papers have been accepted for presentation at EDOC 2024! See you in Vienna!

• June 10, 2024: My dissertation got shortlisted for the BPM Best Dissertation Award 2024!

• June 5, 2024: I was a finalist at the Targion Best Dissertation Award for the best PhD thesis in Information Systems/Wirtschaftsinformatik in the DACH Region

• June 4, 2024: I was honored as CAiSE Best PhD Thesis Nominee 2024 for one of the Top-3 dissertations in Information Systems Engineering

• May  15, 2024: We presented our work on 'Privacy-aware Analysis of Data Series' at ICDE 2024 in Utrecht!

Feel free to connect with me on social media, for the most recent updates about my research. I am also happy for every request regarding collaboration or similar things. Please feel free to reach out, either by social media or email!

Contact: stephan.fahrenkrog[at]uni.li