MAJ Ethan H. Shafer Assistant Professor Assistant Faculty Recruiting Officer Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ethan.shafer [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications MAJ Ethan Shafer was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 2013 after graduating from Dakota State University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He served as a Mission Director and Platoon Leader for A/3 Air Defense Artillery Battery (JLENS) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Afterwards, MAJ Shafer worked as the Executive Officer for Bravo Battery, 3-6 ADA, an AIT training battery. He then transferred from Air Defense Artillery to the Information Systems Engineering functional area. Subsequently, he served as the Information Management Officer for the 44th Signal Battalion, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade, Grafenwoehr, Germany. After completing his M.S. in Computer Science, MAJ Shafer then transitioned to an Instuctor in the EECS Department at the United States Military Academy, where he currently serves. MAJ Shafer is a graduate from the Air Defense Artillery Basic Officer Leader's Course, the Signal Captain's Career Course, the Information Systems Engineer Course, and Airborne School. M.S. in Computer Science - Case Western Reserve University M.S. in Software Engineering - Drexel University B.S. in Mathematics for Business Information Systems Dakota State University 2013 B.S. in Computer Science - Dakota State University Research Interests High Performance Computing, Computer Vision, Robotics Current Research Adversarial Encoder-Driven Filter for Targeted Image Tagging Selected Publications Regnier, Jeremie, Ethan Shafer, Edward Sobiesk, Nicholas Stave, and Malcolm Haynes. “From Crisis to Opportunity: Practices and Technologies for a More Effective Post-COVID Classroom.” Education and Information Technologies 29, no. 5 (2024): 5981–6003. Shafer, Ethan, Timothy Graziano, and Jay Fisher. “Analysis of Initial Entry-Level Technology Course Impacts on STEM Major Selection.” International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences 17, no. 10 (2023): 636–41. Shafer, Ethan, Jesse Wood, Sheyla Street, Enoch Crow, and Calvin Lu. “Social Bias and Image Tagging: Evaluation of Progress in State-of-the-Art Models.” In International Symposium on Visual Computing, 332–44. Springer, 2023. Stave, Nicholas Jon, Jeremie Regnier, Ethan Harold Shafer, Edward John Sobiesk, and Malcolm Gibran Haynes. “Bouncing Forward from COVID in Higher Education.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, 73–77, 2022.