Distinctions
- Runner-up best paper award (CAiSE 2025): Alexander Kraus, Keyvan Amiri Elyasi, Han van der Aa: On the Use of Steady-State Detection for Process Mining: Achieving More Accurate Insights
- Runner-up best paper award (CoopIS 2024): Julian Neuberger, Han van der Aa, Lars Ackermann, Daniel Buschek, Jannic Herrmann, Stefan Jablonski: Assisted Data Annotation for Business Process Information Extraction from Textual Documents
- Best paper award (ICPM 2024): Lukas Kirchdorfer, Robert Blümel, Timotheus Kampik, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt: AgentSimulator: An Agent-based Approach for Data-driven Business Process Simulation
- Runner-up best paper award (ICPM 2024): Thomas Grisold, Han van der Aa, Sandro Franzoi, Sophie Hartl, Jan Mendling, Jan vom Brocke: A Context Framework for Sense-making of Process Mining Results
- Best student paper award (BPM 2024): Alexander Kraus, Han van der Aa: Looking for Change: A Computer Vision Approach for Concept Drift Detection in Process Mining
- Best reviewer award (ICPM 2023): Best reviewer at the International Conference on Process Mining
- Best paper award (CAiSE 2023): Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa: Unsupervised Task Recognition from User Interaction Streams
- Best student paper award (ICPM 2021): Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Martin Kabierski, Fabian Rösel, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich: SaCoFa: Semantics-aware Control-flow Anonymization for Process Mining
- Best student paper award (ER 2020): Karolin Winter, Han van der Aa, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Matthias Weidlich: Assessing the Compliance of Business Process Models with Regulatory Documents
- Runner-up best paper award (BPM 2019): Martin Bauer, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich: Estimating Process Conformance by Trace Sampling and Result Approximation
- Runner-up best dissertation award (BPM 2018) — for the PhD thesis: Comparing and Aligning Process Representations
- Runner-up best paper award (CAiSE 2017): Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers: Checking Process Compliance on the Basis of Uncertain Event-to-Activity Mappings