Robert Brunner
Chief Disruption Officer at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, 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 (20)
spring10
science10
hadoop9
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
big-data9
data-analysis9
mining6
des4
pandas3
web-application3
data-mining3
crowd3
mysql2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ProfessorBrunner/rp-pdm15
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 2 months
data-analysispythonfallminingillinois
lcdm-uiuc/accy570-fa16
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 26 pushes in 9 months
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