After my PhD in 1992, I founded (together with R. Kumar) the still flourishing hardware verification group at the Institue of Computer Design and Fault Tolerance at the University of Karlsruhe. It was fun time and many great PhD students graduated then (e.g., Klaus Schneider, Jürgen Frößl, Ralf Reetz, Sofiène Tahar).
However, although academia is fun, in 1998 I guessed - and my stay in Califonia absolutely confirmed it - that industry is even more challeging and much more exciting. That is why I am with Bosch now. Not to loose the academic fun, I still maintain a small research group, now at the University of Tübingen. It has turned out that the great people and students there are easily able to prduce a significant amount of ideas and papers. Dirk Hoffmann was my first PhD student who graduated in Tübingen.
Want to look at my paper list (updated now and then) or my other duties?
Cheers
Thomas Kropf