Biography

Born in Barcelona, Jorge Munoz-Gama is Vice-Head of the Department of Computer Science (DCC), Co-Director of the Human & Process Research Lab (HAPLAB), and Associate Professor of the School of Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC).  Doctor in Computation with Excellent Cum Laude Mention, International Mention and Extraordinary Mention from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), he received his Bachelor on Informatics Engineering from the same university.

His research fields of interest include ‘Process Mining’, specially applied to Education, Medical Education, and Healthcare, among other areas. He has authored more than 80 publications on the topic, including the book ‘Conformance Checking and Diagnosis in Process Mining’ (Springer 2016). He is Steering Committee member of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining and founding member of the Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare Alliance (PODS4H Alliance).

Passionate about teaching and committed with the educational innovation research, specially in computer science, he received both the Faculty and University Teaching Excellence Awards.

… and he is a huge cinema enthusiast.