Marlon Dumas

About

Marlon Dumas is a prominent researcher at the intersection of process mining and robotic process automation (RPA), whose work has fundamentally shaped how organizations identify, analyze, and automate repetitive digital workflows. His research focuses on extracting actionable insights from user interaction logs — fine-grained records of how employees interact with software applications — and translating those insights into deployable automation solutions. Dumas's most influential contribution, "Robotic Process Mining: Vision and Challenges" (2020), has garnered over 125 citations and established a compelling theoretical framework uniting process mining methodology with RPA technology. This vision paper has become a foundational reference for researchers and practitioners exploring intelligent automation. Complementing this, his work on discovering automatable routines, segmenting UI logs, and synthesizing RPA scripts — including the practical tools Action Logger and Robidium — demonstrates a rare ability to bridge rigorous academic inquiry with real-world engineering impact. Particularly notable is his sustained focus on the full automation pipeline: from capturing user behavior, to identifying automation candidates, to generating executable RPA scripts automatically. With nearly 300 cumulative citations across this focused body of work, Dumas has positioned himself as a leading voice in making organizational automation more intelligent, evidence-driven, and accessible to enterprises seeking operational efficiency.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Robotic Process Mining: Vision and Challenges

   125 citations · 2020
2. 2
   Discovering Automatable Routines from User Interaction Logs

   41 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Identifying Candidate Routines for Robotic Process Automation from Unsegmented UI Logs

   31 citations · 2020
4. 4
   Multi-Perspective process model discovery for robotic process automation

   29 citations · 2018
5. 5
   Action Logger: Enabling Process Mining for Robotic Process Automation

   16 citations · 2019
6. 6
   Robotic Process Mining

   16 citations · 2022
7. 7
   Discovering data transfer routines from user interaction logs

   15 citations · 2021
8. 8
   Automated Discovery of Data Transformations for Robotic Process Automation

   13 citations · 2020
9. 9
   Identifying candidate routines for Robotic Process Automation from unsegmented UI logs

   7 citations · 2020
10. 10
    Robidium: Automated Synthesis of Robotic Process Automation Scripts from UI Logs.

    6 citations · 2020

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