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Stefan Brandle
Department Co-Chair and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Education
- PhD, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
- MS, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
- BA, Philosophy, Wheaton College
Featured Publications
Publisher: Zyante.com (2016)
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 3rd edition (2008)
Career Highlights
- Fulbright Scholar, University of Mauritius (1 year)
- Satellite communications architect, NearSpace Launch (10 years, ongoing)
- Cybersecurity researcher, manager, and point of contact at Taylor University on behalf of Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology (9 years, ongoing, over $1M brought to Taylor)
- Living and teaching abroad in Mauritius, Ecuador, South Korea
- Six satellite-related papers
- Citations: 140 (Google Scholar), 168 (Researchgate.net)
Featured Work
M. Mays, N. Drabinsky, S. Brandle. Feature Selection for Malware Classification. 28th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, MAICS 2017, Fort Wayne, Indiana: pp. 165-170. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1964/ (accessed 2019-11-05).
Nurkkala, Thomas, and Brandle, Stefan. Software Studio: Teaching Professional Software Engineering. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, SIGCSE 2011, Dallas, Texas, pp. 153-158.
Biography
Taylor has a strong claim to having the best computer science program among the Christian colleges. We have wonderful students, amazing alumni, and strong facilities and equipment. Since the late 70’s, the department has done dozens of projects that have been used by our clients. Many of these have focused on the church and missions community and have made a real contribution to the clients. It is a real pleasure to teach at Taylor.
Hobbies
World events, gardening, reading, music.
Countries Lived In
Angola, Ecuador, Mauritius, Reunion Island, South Africa, South Korea