Dr.-Ing. Kiran Mathews
Senior Research Engineer
Bosch Corporate Research
Stuttgart area, Germany

About

I’m a senior research engineer at Bosch Corporate Research. I work where networking, systems software and functional safety meet, and for more than a decade I have designed, implemented and evaluated communication protocols: first for industrial WiFi, now for in-vehicle networks and the path from vehicle to edge to cloud.

Day to day that means fault injection for automated software safety analysis, vehicle diagnostics, eBPF performance work, and in-vehicle networking with 10BASE-T1S and IEEE 1722.

I did my doctorate at TU Kaiserslautern on reliability-constrained QoS routing in WiFi networks, was a postdoc at Fraunhofer IESE, and co-founded Qurience, a small biomedical knowledge-curation startup that is now part of Causality BioModels.

Outside my day job I contribute to open-source projects, among them Open1722, COVESA’s implementation of IEEE 1722, and I build side projects such as Start with A, an open-source investment research platform.

This site is my notebook. I’m writing again after a long break, mostly about the work above, and sometimes about moving between academia, a startup and industrial research. Write-ups about companies go on my Substack.

Off the clock — hiking, and Arsenal, patiently.

Experience

  1. 2026 — now

    Senior Research Engineer

    Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research

    Technical lead of a fault injection platform for automated software safety analysis; vehicle diagnostics, eBPF performance engineering and in-vehicle networking.

  2. 2023 — 2025

    Research Engineer

    Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research

    Vehicle–edge–cloud computing and automotive communication, from workload offloading to latency monitoring.

  3. 2022 — 2023

    Postdoctoral Researcher, Safety Engineering

    Fraunhofer IESE

    Digital twins for Industry 4.0 projects, and safety requirements for automotive communication systems.

  4. 2021 — 2022

    Co-founder

    Qurience GmbH (now part of Causality BioModels)

    One of four co-founders of a biomedical knowledge-curation startup; I designed and built the platform architecture.

  5. 2017 — 2022

    Research Associate, Networked Systems Group

    Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

    Protocols and algorithms for wireless networked control systems, and WiPS, a C++ WiFi protocol stack integrated into ns-3.

  6. 2014 — 2017

    Student Research Assistant, Networked Systems Group

    Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

    Communication and time synchronisation protocols for IEEE 802.15.4 networks, and a WLAN testbed.

Education

  1. 2022
    Dr.-Ing., Computer Science
    TU Kaiserslautern (now RPTU), Germany
  2. 2017
    M.Sc. Computer Science, Communication Systems
    TU Kaiserslautern (now RPTU), Germany
  3. 2013
    B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering
    Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India

Elsewhere