Pnina Soffer is a Full Professor and the former Head of the Information Systems Department at the University of Haifa. She received her BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D in Information Systems Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2002).
Her research deals with business process modeling, analysis, and mining, addressing issues such as goal orientation, cyber security, data and business-focused applications of process mining, as well as social and cognitive aspects of process mining, modeling and improvement.
She has published over 150 publications in journals and conference proceedings. She has served in editorial boards of several journals, and as a department editor of the BISE journal.
Pnina has served in program committees of numerous conferences, and held several organizational positions, including serving as a program chair of BPM 2014, CAiSE 2016, and ICPM 2021, and a general chair of CAiSE 2024. She is a steering committee member of CAiSE and a vice-chair of the IEEE taskforce on process mining.