Roland Bijvank

Researcher

After his studies in Computer Technology at Utrecht University, Roland Bijvank (1967) worked at University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMC) as an application developer/manager and system integration specialist  for patient care. He then worked as a full stack developer for the Rabobank investment site.

He eventually returned to the UMC Utrecht as a solution architect for the personnel and salary system. During the strategy study phase, Roland formed the substantive (architectural) conscience for the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) selection process, followed by the implementation of the chosen ERP through a European tender. Since 2020 Roland is (Solution Architect at NWO, where he works at the quality of certifications and production processes (Certif-AI). For the Master Data Driven Business, he developed a module Information Systems which he also taught.

"Roland set himself apart by his broad and coherent view of IT matters."

He has been working as a lecturer in the Cyber Security & Cloud degree programme since 1 January 2011. He has done a lot of professional development for IT Service Management programming (Python) and IT architecture. Within the Research group Artificial Intelligence (AI) he conducts research into process mining and hopes to complete his doctoral degree in this field.

Fields of expertise

  • Process Mining (Data Science)
  • IT architecture
  • AI Deep Learning
 

PhD Voucher Awarded

Roland Bijvank from the AI research group has been awarded a PhD voucher for his research project, Smart Chronologies: Process Mining and LLMs for a Transparent Government.
The assessment committee responded positively to the proposal: “The complexity of managing large volumes of information objects within certain government services and processes is clearly demonstrated in the application. Examples include parliamentary inquiries, such as those into the childcare benefits scandal and natural gas extraction, as well as requests under the Open Government Act (Woo). The research also aligns well with the research programmes of the participating research groups.
Over the course of this four-year project, carried out in collaboration with Utrecht University (UU) under the supervision of Hajo Reijers and in cooperation with the National Archives, Roland will explore ways to automatically extract events from one-off, unstructured datasets and use them to construct process chronologies. The aim is to automate the current, partly manual integration process, which currently requires many hours of work from the limited number of researchers working in this field.
As the topic of LLMs falls within the AI research group, while Process Mining falls within the Process Innovation & Information Systems (PI & IS) research group, the research will be carried out within both groups.

Publications

Projects

    • Research group: Artificial Intelligence
    • 1 April 2026 - 31 March 2028
    Responsible AI Procurement
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    • Research groups: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Ethics
    • 15 November 2020 - 15 November 2024
    CERTIF-AI

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Roland Bijvank

  • Researcher
  • Research group: Artificial Intelligence