Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad is a research group lead at IBM Almaden Research Center where his work focuses on database management, information retrieval, process mining, and cognitive business process management. Some of his influential publications include papers on discovering interaction models from web service logs, event correlation across services, and process automation for unstructured processes. He is currently working on cognitive process enablement, which aims to define, enact, and learn from processes through conversational assistants.