About the Speaker:   

Dr. Clarence (Skip) Ellis is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Collaboration Technology Research Group at the University of Colorado.
At Colorado, he is a member of the Institute for Cognitive Science. He is involved in research and teaching of workflow, groupware, coordination
theory, and the Alice programming language. Dr. Ellis has worked as a researcher and developer at MCC, Xerox PARC, Bull Corp, the Institute for
the Future, Bell Telephone Labs, IBM, Los Alamos Scientific Labs, and Argonne National Lab. His academic experience includes teaching at
Stanford University, MIT, University of Texas, Stevens Institute of Technology, Johannes Kepler Institute in Austria, and at Chiaotung
University in China.

Professor Ellis is one of the original researchers / developers of Workflow Management Systems (at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, and at MIT before
that with Mike Hammer and others). In the 1980s, he was one of the initiators of Groupware and CSCW journals, conferences, and research. Skip
Ellis has published over 100 technical papers, written several books, lectured in more than two dozen countries, and was recently selected as an
ACM Computer Society Fellow. He has recently been working and publishing in the areas of Process Discovery and Workflow Mining.