Contact:
email: padmai.iyenghar(at)gmail.com
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📢 New year begins with good news! (25.01.2026)
Three articles I have authored are selected (to Appear) at MODESWARD 2026: One of them is a candidate for best paper award :-). And, I will present them myself, this time around.
P. Iyenghar, A Model-Driven Catalogue of Dark Pattern Smells, 14th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2026), accepted to appear, 2026. Candidate for best paper award!
P. Iyenghar, N. Baumgartner, F. Degen, E. Pulvermüller, Discovering Relationships Among Code Smells Through Association and Temporal Analysis, 14th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2026), accepted to appear, 2026.
P. Iyenghar, N. Baumgartner, E. Pulvermüller, Hierarchical Analysis of Data Clump Model Smells through Subgroup-Based Structural Metrics, 14th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2026), accepted to appear, 2026.
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I am a senior functional safety and cybersecurity consultant at innotec GmbH-TÜV Austria Group.
A Technical blog that I contribute to @innotec (called blossom) can be found here.
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