Prof. Dr. Stefan Leue

Chair Head

Contact

Phone: +49 7531  88-2893

Room: PZ 902

Post office box: 067

Website

Office Hours

Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00

By e-mail appointment

Research Interests

Use of formal methods in the design and analysis of complex systems, with a special focus on embedded software systems and system architectures:

  • verification of machine learning / AI based software
  • data-centric software engineering
  • automotive software engineering
  • analysis and repair of timed systems (TarTar)
  • formal models of collective behavior
  • formal methods in functional safety analysis (QuantUM)
  • causality analysis and fault localization (Causality Checking) 
  • legal tech
  • case studies in the design and verification of concurrent software systems (GIOP, telecommunication systems, Airbag control units, Automated Driving System (ADS) architectures)
  • algorithmics and application of model checking
  • heuristic search in system verification (directed model checking)
  • abstraction and incomplete verification techniques
  • visual specification formalisms for concurrent systems (Message Sequence Charts)
  • semantics and verification of object-oriented modeling techniques, including UML, UML-RT and SysML
  • protocol engineering and design
  • avionics and automotive software and safety enigeering (DO-178C, AutoSAR, ISO 26262, ISO PAS 21448 (SOTIF))
  • verification of real-time and probabilistic system properties (DiPro)

For more information see our research pages.

Research and Technology Transfer

  • Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center Complex Systems Engineering at the University of Konstanz (2010 - 2020)

Current and Former Memberships in Research Networks

Academic Degrees

January 1995 Dr. phil. nat., University of Berne, Switzerland.
October 1990 Master Degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker), University of Hamburg, Germany.

Academic Appointments and Research Positions

Since April
2004

 Professor, Chair for Software Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany.
July - December
2000		 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Waterloo. On leave of absence.
December 1999 -
April 2004		 Associate Professor (tenured) of Computer Networks and Telematics at the Institute for Informatics (Computer Science) of the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany.
March 1995 -
June 2000		 Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. Cross-appointment at Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, July 1998. Leave of absence starting January 1, 2000.
November 1991-
March 1995		 Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Visiting Positions

April - May 2017 Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Analysis of Computer Systems Group, New York University 

September - December 2008

 Visiting Professor, Institute of Information Security, Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
July - September 2003 Visiting Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Kanada.
January 2000 -
August 2002		 Adjunct Professor, at the International University in Germany, Bruchsal.
1999/2000 Visiting Professor, École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG) and Institut VERIMAG, Grenoble, France.
May - December
1998		 Member of Technical Staff, Computing Sciences Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (during sabbatical leave).

Industrial Work Experience

October 1990 -
November 1991		 Computer Science consulting in industry, consulting on individual information systems for major German life insurance companies.
1982 - 1990 Consulting for German life insurance companies, various internships at IBM Germany.

Organization and Involvement in Conferences / Workshops

FORTE'94 Seventh International Conference on FORMAL DESCRIPTION TECHNIQUES for Distributed Systems and Communications Protocols, Berne, Switzerland, 4-7 October 1994 (Conference Organization Chairperson).
SPIN'99 The 6th International SPIN Workshop on Practical Aspects of Model Checking, Toulouse, France, 21 and 24 September 1999 (Co-Organizer).
SPIN 2002 9th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software, April 11-13, 2002, Grenoble, France (PC Chair).
Dagstuhl
Seminar
03371		 Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools, September 7-12, 2003 (Co-organizer).
Dagstuhl
Seminar
06172		 Directed Model Checking, April 2006 (Co-Organizer).
FMICS 2007

12th International ERCIM Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial
Critical Systems (FMICS 2007), Berlin, Juli 2007 (PC Co-Chair).
ICSE 2008
New Faculty
Symposium

New Faculty Symposium, 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, Leipzig, May 10-18, 2008, Leipzig, Germany (Co-Chair).
CREST 
2017

2nd international Workshop on Causal Reasoning for Embedded and Safety-critical Systems Technologies (Co-Chair).

Personal

Date and place of birth 1962 in Hamburg, Germany.
Marital status married, 2 children
Nationality German
Languages German, English, French
Interests Tennis, alpine skiing, hiking, mountain biking, paintings by Paul Klee, mountains!

Students and Alumni

Current Post-Doc

  • Dr. Georgiana Caltais

Current PhD Student

  • Martin Kölbl

Alumni (Master and PhD)

  • Adrian Beer (now with Carl Storz, Schaffhausen)
  • Alina Bey 
  • Dr. Florian Leitner-Fischer (now with ZF TRW Automotive GmbH, Radolfzell)
  • Yang Sen 
  • Dr. Husain Aljazzar (now with Bosch)
  • Dr. Wei Wei (now with SAP)
  • Dr. Richard Mayr (Habilitation, now with University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Prof. Dr. Alberto Lluch Lafuente (now with DTU Copenhagen, DK)
  • Piotr Tysowski 
  • Moataz Kamel

Miscellaneous

Memberships