My research has focused on topics such as business process mining, conformance checking, streaming data, formal concept analysis. I am interested in mostly anything related to data engineering.
For research collaboration or inquiries: kristo.raun@ut.ee.
Teaching
I am leading two MSc level courses at University of Tartu:
-> Data Engineering (LTAT.02.007)
-> Big Data Management (LTAT.02.003)
Supervision
As of 2025 I have supervised 6 MSc & 2 BSc students:
MSc
-> Kristjan Lõhmus. Estonian Open Data Warehouse.
-> Annabel Hiiu, Anti Karumaa. Machine Learning Based Risk Scoring for Money Mule Detection.
-> Agnes Annilo. Exploring SQL-based Near-realtime Conformance Checking Using Stream Processing Engines.
-> Silver Kurg. Design and Development of Data Warehouse: A Case Study of Aktsiaselts Kihnu Veeteed.
-> Mait Metelitsa. A Functional Prototype and General Architecture of Analytic Data Management for a Railway Company.
BSc
-> Joonas Tiitson. PCB Component Detection.
-> Helen Timberg. Automated Data Collection and Analysis for Studying the Membership Composition of Estonian Political Parties Based on e-Business Register Data.
Research
My research articles are below, for further information you can check:
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ETIS
Back to the Order: Partial orders in streaming conformance checking
Raun, K., Tommasini, R., & Awad, A. (2025). Back to the Order: Partial orders in streaming conformance checking. Information Systems, 102566.
Authors: Kristo Raun, Riccardo Tommasini, Ahmed Awad
Published by: Information Systems, 102566.
Volume: 133
Year: 2025
Adaptive Handling of Out-of-order Streams in Conformance Checking
Authors: Kristo Raun, Riccardo Tommasini, Ahmed Awad
Presented at: 26th International Workshop on Design, Optimization, Languages, and Analytical Processing of Big Data (DOLAP 2024)
Published by: CEUR
Pages: 9–17
Year: 2024
Won the best paper at DOLAP 2024 award.
C-3PA: Streaming Conformance, Confidence and Completeness in Prefix-Alignments
Authors: Kristo Raun, Max Nielsen, Andrea Burattin, Ahmed Awad
Presented at: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Published by: Springer Nature Switzerland Cham
Pages: 437–453
Year: 2023
I Will Survive: An Event-Driven Conformance Checking Approach Over Process Streams
Authors: Kristo Raun, Riccardo Tommasini, Ahmed Awad
Presented at: 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems
Pages: 49–60
Year: 2023
Won the best paper at DEBS 2023 award.
Efficient Approximate Conformance Checking Using Trie Data Structures
Authors: Ahmed Awad, Kristo Raun, Matthias Weidlich
Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2021)
Publisher: IEEE
Pages: 1–8
Year: 2021
GC and Other Methods for Full and Partial Context Coverage
Authors: Kristo Raun, Ants Torim, Sadok Ben Yahia
Published in: Procedia Computer Science
Publisher: Elsevier
Volume: 192
Pages: 746–755
Year: 2021
Concise Description of Telecom Service Use Through Concept Chains
Authors: Ants Torim, Sadok Ben Yahia, Kristo Raun
Presented at: 11th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems
Pages: 181–186
Year: 2019
Covering Concept Lattices with Concept Chains
Authors: Ants Torim, Marko Mets, Kristo Raun
Presented at: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2019), Marburg, Germany
Published by: Springer International Publishing
Pages: 190–203
Year: 2019
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