Stefan Fenz
Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Mag.rer.soc.oec. Dr.techn.
Research Focus
- Information Systems Engineering: 50%
- Logic and Computation: 50%
About
Stefan (CISSP) is senior scientist at TU Wien, key researcher at SBA Research, and co-founder of Xylem Technologies GmbH. From 2012 to 2015, Stefan was an appointed member of the European Network and Information Security Agency’s (ENISA) Permanent Stakeholder Group.
In 2010, Stefan worked as a visiting scholar at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University (USA). From 2008 to 2012, Stefan lectured on information security at Peking University (Beijing, China), Beijing Jiaotong University (Beijing, China), Konkuk University (Seoul, Korea) and University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien (Vienna, Austria).
His research is on organizational information security, semantic technologies, AI and decision support. Stefan received an MSc in software engineering & internet computing from TU Wien, an MSc in political science from University of Vienna, an MSc in business informatics from TU Wien, and a PhD in computer science from TU Wien. He is a member of the IFIP WG 11.1 – Information Security Management, the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and ISC².
Role
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Senior Scientist
Data Science, E194-04
Courses
2024W
- Bachelor Thesis / 188.919 / PR
- Interdisciplinary Project in Data Science / 194.147 / PR
- Management of Software Projects / 188.407 / VU
2025S
- Bachelor Thesis for Informatics and Business Informatics / 188.944 / PR
- Management of Software Projects / 188.407 / VU
Projects
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Innov:ATE Austria's Digital Innovation Hub for Agriculture, Timber and Energy
2021 – 2024 / Digital Innovation Hub INNOVATE -
ICT for Decision Making in Farming
2017 – 2021 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Publication: 199164 -
Identifikation und Managment von Reputationsrisiken und -chancen
2016 – 2018 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Formalizing Information Security Risk and Compliance Management
2013 – 2016 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) -
Cloud Security: Guidelines for public authorities and SMEs
2012 – 2014 / FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH -
Semantic Technologies for Energy-efficient Building Planning
2011 – 2015 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Information Warfare on the Internet: Data Security Monitoring in Austria
2011 – 2013 / FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH -
Recognition and Pseudonymization of Personal Data in Paper-based Heatlth Records
2010 – 2014 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) -
Security Ontologies
2008 – 2010 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Publications: 161670 / 169676 / 176626 / 26836 / 51421 / 51423 / 51565 / 51804 / 51846 / 51916 / 52118 / 52160 / 52370 / 52371 / 52594 / 52595 / 52597 / 52599 / 52622 / 52623 / 52658 / 52659 / 53128 / 53129 / 53130 / 53131 / 53162 / 53363 -
DynamOnt Methodology for Dynamic Ontology Creation
2005 – 2007 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Publication: 51695