In 2004, he received a PhD. in Computer Science from the same university. He is a member of the ALBCOM research group, a multidisciplinary group that holds a distinction from the Government of Catalunya. Furthermore he is a founding member of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining. Josep published around 80 articles in journals, such as Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE TKDE, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Information Systems, and highly competitive conferences like ECML/PKDD, BPM, ATVA, EMNLP, LREC, DAC and ICCAD. He served as PC Co-chair of the ACSD 2011 in Newcastle, and organizes the ATAED workshop since 2011. Josep is the General Chair of the BPM conference in 2017, where he also serves as a PC Co-chair. He co-organizes the Process Discovery Contest.