Contact:
email: padmai.iyenghar(at)gmail.com
I am a senior functional safety and cybersecurity consultant at innotec GmbH-TÜV Austria Group.
In parallel, I am also actively involved in R&D activities/projects and Academia (Teaching, Thesis supervision). My publication list can be found here.
Software Engineering & Quality Assurance
Functional safety software engineering
Model-Based Software development
Embedded Software Engineering
Novel Approaches and Tool support for Performance/viewpoint/trade-off analysis of various aspects such as timing, energy, reliability and functional safety.
Internet Of Things (IOT)
October 2020-Present: Senior Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Consultant, innotec GmbH-TÜV Austria Group, Germany
December 2021-11.2024: Entwicklungsprofessur (50% position), Fakultät Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik (IuI), Hochschule Osnabrueck
October 2020-March 2022: Lehrauftrag (teaching contract, thesis supervision), University of Osnabrueck, Software Engineering Research Group, UOS, Germany
July 2014- September 2020: Staff Scientist & Project Lead, Software Engineering Research Group, UOS, Germany.
2009- June 2014: Research staff, at Institute of Computer Engineering, UAS, Osnabrueck, Germany.
2009-2012: Ph.D candidate at Software Engineering Research Group, UOS, Germany.
2006-2008: Senior Software Engineer at Aricent, Chennai, India.
2007-2008: Consultant, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Espoo, Finland.
2004-2006: Research Engineer at Alcatel-Research and Innovation center (now Alcatel-Lucent), Stuttgart, Germany
2003-2004: Student Research Assistant at Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany.Parental leave: 05.2018 until 09.2019 and 10.2012 until 05.2013
Organization and management of research projects (e.g. preparing ZiM/BMWi project applications)
Research and Development (in the field of Embedded Software Engineering)
Scientific publication in peer-reviewed conferences and journals
Co-operative project development work with industrial partners
Lecturer/Teaching activities-Bachelor and Master degree courses in Software Engineering
Thesis supervision/evaluation
Other activities:
Management committee Member-Germany /COST Action at COST Action 19135: Connecting Education and Research Communities for an Innovative Resource Aware Society.
Guest speaker at Parents As Trainers (PAT)-Luxembourg
Member of review committee at (not up-to-date):
2009-2012: PhD (Dr. rer. nat) , Abschlussnote: Ausgezeichnet (Summa Cum Laude)
Thesis topic: A Test Framework for Executing Model-Based Testing in Embedded Software Systems. A press release is available here.
Industrial partners: Willert Software Tools GmbH and BTC Embedded Systems (BTC-ES)
University: Institute of Computer Science, University of Osnabrueck, Software Engineering Research Group.
2003-2006: Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Information and Media Technology from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany.
1999-2003: Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.
Best outgoing student award winner and University Gold medal winner