Journal of Sleep Disorders: Treatment and CareISSN: 2325-9639

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Biography

My name is Jochen De Weerdt and since January 2014, I am working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management of the KU Leuven. I work within the Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems, LIRIS for short, where I teach and conduct research in the area of Information Systems, with a special interest in Business Process Management, process mining, data mining, artificial intelligence, and web analytics. More information about my research can be found here. As for teaching, I am co-lecturing five units: Business Information Systems (x3), Business Analysis, and Ontwikkeling van Bedrijfstoepassingen. 

Before my appointment at KU Leuven, I worked as  a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Information Systems School (Business Process Management Discipline) of the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia). In this role, I was mainly involved in the Cost-Aware Business Process Management project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). In addition, I conducted research in the area of learning analytics.

Academic Career

  • 2014 - now: Assistant Professor (tenure-track docent) at KU Leuven
  • 2012 - 2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
  • 2009 - 2012: PhD in Business Economics (KU Leuven) entitled "Business Process Discovery: New Techniques and Applications" (pdf)
  • 2008 - 2009: Msc degree in Business Economics - Information Systems Engineering (KU Leuven)
  • 2005 - 2007: Bsc degree in Business Economics - Information Systems Engineering (KU Leuven)

Research Interest

Obstructive sleep apnea; Actigraphy; Continuous positive airway pressure; Sleep duration; Physical activity