Steffen Helke

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Helke serves as a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology at University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen. His academic roles include Senate membership, evaluation officer for the department, program coordinator for Media Informatics, and spokesperson for the GI Specialist Group Automotive Software Engineering. Current affiliations span committee work in electrical engineering bachelor programs and leadership in safety-critical software research.

His research focuses on functional software security, safety-critical system verification, and model-based quality assurance. Key areas include information flow control languages, automotive software security, hierarchical statechart validation, and requirements delta analysis for efficient development estimation. Methodologies emphasize formal verification, static analysis, and tool-supported refactoring to ensure robustness in embedded systems.

Teaching encompasses advanced courses in Software Engineering, IT Security, Ethical Hacking, and Competitive Programming. Thesis supervision occurs in research areas like NLP-based requirements analysis, refactorings for security languages (Jif), and model checking for Statecharts. Industrial collaborations facilitate project/bachelor theses with real-world security applications.

Research trends from publications show consistent focus on bridging formal methods with industrial software development. Dominant disciplines include Software Engineering (72% of works) and Formal Verification (58%), with emerging subfields like NLP-assisted requirements engineering (2019) and automotive security frameworks. Keyword analysis reveals sustained emphasis on verification (100% of works), security (80%), and automotive applications (40%).

Administrative contributions include leadership in the combined Electrical Engineering bachelor program and active participation in university governance through department councils. Tools developed in his research (e.g., Delta Analyzer, R2BC) are integrated into curricula using ReqView, Matlab/Simulink, and Enterprise Architect for systematic requirement engineering and UML modeling.