Robert Brunner
Chief Disruption Officer at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Brunner is a data-centric innovator and academic leader with 12+ years of experience translating complex data challenges into practical business impact across industry and education. As Chief Disruption Officer at Gies College of Business and founder of Innodative, he blends strategic foresight with hands-on analytics, visualization, and machine learning to drive organizational transformation. A long-serving professor and former director of a university analytics center, he designs curricula and consulting engagements that connect emerging technologies to real-world decision making. Trained as a Ph.D. astrophysicist, he brings deep quantitative rigor and a futurist’s sensibility to anticipate tech trends and their business implications. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he also serves as a bridge between research, industry, and students through sustained roles in the university research park and executive education.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Purdue University
Github Skills (17)
data-science10
mining5
des5
alpha5
python4
data-analysis3
pandas3
science3
web-application3
machine-learning3
data-mining3
data-wrangling3
crowd3
modeling2
data-visualization2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lcdm-uiuc/accy570-fa16
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 26 pushes in 9 months
ProfessorBrunner/intro2ds
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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