Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Brunthaler

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Brunthaler

Stefan Brunthaler obtained a Dr.techn. degree from TU Wien in 2011, spent the following four years at University of California, Irvine. After his return to Europe, he received a call to join Paderborn University, as a tenured associate professor to succeed the Compilers and Programming Languages chair of Uwe Kastens. In 2017, he received a call to join the newly established National Cyber Defense Research Institute CODE at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, where he holds the chair for Secure Software Engineering. As of October 2021, Prof. Brunthaler has obtained competitive grants totaling over 45 million Euros overall, from DARPA, NSF, the Austrian Science Fund, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Airbus, Oracle, and the German Ministry of Defense. Prof. Brunthaler is a member of IFIP Working Group 2.4, Software Implementation Technology, and since being adopted by Python 3.10, his research in optimizing interpreters  is now daily used by hundreds of millions of people.

At present, Prof. Brunthaler actively pursues research in the following directions:

• language-based security:
  • software diversity,
  • language-based privacy,
  • formalization and verification of language-based transformations,
  • novel directions in fuzzing complex software systems.
• programming language implementation: 
  • language-oriented programming concepts in the construction of compilers,
  • novel concepts in decompilation.
• programming language optimization:
  • optimizing interpreters for high-level languages such as Python and JavaScript,
  • just-in-time compilers,
  • energy efficiency.
• novel aspects of datacenter construction.