Jan Vanthienen (born 1956) is a Belgian Information systems scientist and Professor of Information systems engineering at Leuven University (KU Leuven), known for his contributions to Business Process Modeling, Process mining and Business Engineering.
He has been a visiting professor at Loyola College in Maryland, Sellinger School of Business and Management, Baltimore, Md in 1991, at the University of Antwerp since 1998 and at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School from 2000 to 2003.
[2] As of 2017[update], Vanthienan served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Decision Support Systems.
[2] More specific research topics are Business rule modeling, rule-based business processes, E-business, business intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Marketing, knowledge based systems, V&V, decision tables, help desk and service automation.
[4] Vanthienen has published numerous papers, articles and other publications.