Stefan Fenz

Stefan Fenz is a Senior Scientist at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), key researcher at SBA Research, and co-founder of Xylem Technologies GmbH. His academic appointments include positions at TU Wien's Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Information Systems Engineering, where he conducts research on organizational information security, semantic technologies, and decision support systems. He previously served as a member of ENISA's Permanent Stakeholder Group (2012-2015) and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (2010).

Dr. Fenz holds multiple advanced degrees including an MSc in software engineering & internet computing, MSc in business informatics, and PhD in computer science from TU Wien, plus an MSc in political science from University of Vienna. His educational background reflects his interdisciplinary approach that bridges technical and organizational aspects of information systems.

His research spans several interconnected domains with primary focus on organizational information security, semantic technologies for decision support, and AI applications in building energy efficiency and agriculture. His work demonstrates consistent integration of semantic web technologies with practical decision support applications across diverse domains. Recent publications show an expansion into AI-driven agricultural optimization while maintaining his foundational work in security ontologies and risk management.

His publication record reveals evolving research trajectories from early work on security ontologies (2008-2012) through semantic approaches to building energy efficiency (2012-2018) to current applications of AI in agriculture and building renovation. The consistent thread throughout is the application of semantic technologies and formal modeling to complex decision problems in security, energy, and now agriculture.

Dr. Fenz is actively involved in research projects including Innov:ATE Austria's Digital Innovation Hub for Agriculture, Timber and Energy (2021-2024) and ICT for Decision Making in Farming (2017-2021), demonstrating his commitment to practical applications of his research. He has supervised numerous master's theses on topics ranging from cloud security to crop rotation optimization.

As a court-sworn expert for IT security, member of IFIP WG 11.1, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and ISC², he maintains strong connections between academic research and practical security challenges. His international experience includes lecturing positions at Peking University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Konkuk University, and University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien (2008-2012).