Ana Costa, M.Sc., M.Sc.

About

Ana is a doctoral candidate at the Information Systems chair, School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich. She brings a background in business processes, data analysis, and software development for meta-learning and joined the research group in October 2024.

LinkedIn: Ana Costa

Research Interest

Predictive Process Monitoring (PPM) aims to predict potential outcomes of uncompleted process cases. Since the advent of LLMs, the potential these models have for strong performance and generalizations remains unexplored. These models can fine-tune large amounts of process data to make decisions based on context and user input and predict the behavior and performance of business processes in real time. My research revolves around the application of LLMs in PPM, especially regarding model building and applicability with transformer architectures. Therefore, the main areas of my research include:

• Predictive Process Monitoring
• Process Mining
• LLMs and Transformer architectures

- Since PPM can be used to predict outcomes of processes, industry companies are welcome to contact me for personalized applications;
- For student master's thesis supervisions, please outline your interests/ experience on these topics. 

Publications

A. Costa, S. Y. Eroglu, K. Andree, L. Pufahl, A Collection of Publicly Available Event Logs Enhanced by Metadata, In BPM-R 2025: Proceedings of the Best BPM Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstrations \& Resources Forum co-located with
23rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2025), Seville, Spain, August 31st to September 5th, 2025. p. accepted.

A. Costa, A. Wimmer, L. Pufahl, LLM4BPMN: A Prompting Approach with LLMs for BPMN Model Generation, Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing - 29th International Conference, EDOC Workshops 2025, Lisboa, Portugal, September 09-12, 2025. p. accepted.

A. Wimmer, A. Costa, L. Pufahl, Natural language processing for bpmn model generation with llms: A systematic literature review, in: Business Process Management Workshops 2025, Springer, 2025, p. accepted.

Costa, A. L. O. da N., Alves, T. C., Frota, H. F., Silva, A. P. D., Pereira Júnior, M. A., Dantas, R. F., Martins, E. F., & Dos Santos, A. C. (2020). Development of a device for the reintegration of people with incomplete quadriplegia. Product: Management and Development, 18(2), 145–156. https://doi.org/10.4322/pmd.2019.024

CHAIM, R. M. ; Fernandes, J.H.C ; Oliveira A L ; BRANT, J. ; carvalho b l ; SALLAS J . Computational Simulation for Software Engineering Requirements Definition - the case of arboviruses dynamics in Brazil. In: International Conference of The System Dynamics Society, 2018, Reykjavik. Proceedings of the International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2018.

Reviews

Ana has served as a reviewer for the conferences/ journals:

• International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER)
• Software and Systems Modeling (SoSym)
• Ecuadorian Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (TICEC)

Teaching

• Process Mining (Master)
• Process Mining Project (Master)
• Exercise Process Mining (Master)
• Advanced Practical Course - Building an Advanced BPM Research App
• Seminar Hot Topics in BPM Research
• Disentangling Sustainability in IT