Bertrand Meyer - Curriculum vitae#

Education

• Doctorat ès Sciences (doctorate + habilitation), Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, 1985
• Engineer’s degree, École Nat. Sup. Télécommunications, Paris, 1974
• MS in computer science, Stanford University, California, 1974
• MA (maîtrise) in Russian language and literature, Sorbonne (Univ. Paris-IV), 1973
• DEA in computer science, Université Paris VI, 1972
• Engineer’s degree, École Polytechnique, Paris, 1972

Professional Experience

• 2001 - present Professor and and head of the Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich, Computer Science Department
• 2001 - present Chief Architect, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara (California), USA
• 2011 - present Professor (adjunct) and head of Software Engineering Laboratory, ITMO National Research University, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)
• 2005 - 2011 President, Informatics Europe (association of European Computer Science departments and research laboratories)
• 2009 - 2010 president, IFIP TC2 committee (software)
• 1989 - present, conference series chair, TOOLS conferences (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems)
• 2002 - 2009 Publisher, Journal of Object Technology
• 2003 - 2006 Associate chair (2003-2004) then chair (2004-2006) of the Computer Science department, ETH Zurich
• 1998 - 2003 Professor (adjunct), Monash University, Australia
• 1985 - 2001 President and CEO, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara (California), USA
• 1985, company founder, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara (California), USA
• 1983 - 1986 Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Computer Science Department.
• 1974 - 1983 Research Engineer, then head of software support division, Electricité de France (French National Power Company), R&D

Some tasks at ETH

Member of computer science department's Ausschuss (executive committee) 2002 - 2007; member of study reform commission (the committee that prepared the redesign of the computer science curriculum, based on the new Bachelor-Master system, over 2002 and 2003); co-wrote report on systems support group (ISG) in 2002; in charge of CS colloquium in 2002 and again, with Peter Müller, for the Summer semester 2004; representing department at committee for 150-th anniversary of ETH (2003-2005); editor of the department's Web site, 2003 - 2004; overseeing the Department's library, 2003 - 2004; associate chair of the department, 2003 - 2004; chair, 2004 - 2006; in charge of Industrial Advisory Board, 2005 - 2007; department representative in "quantum-tera" (then "nano-tera") project, 2006 - 2007; member of Unterrichtskommission (curriculum committee) since April 2009.

Other positions

• ECMA and International Standards Organization (ISO), ECMA TC39-TG4 committee, Eiffel, 2002-present.
• Société des Outils du Logiciel, Paris (1986-1997): President and Chief Technology Officer.
• Sabbatical stays and extended guest lectures: Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia, 1992; Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, 1993; Wuhan University, China, 2004 and 2006; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2007; École Polytechnique, Paris, January-March 2008; Politecnico di Milano and Univ. of Florence, April 2008; State Univ. of Saint Petersburg, June 2008; Fudan University (Shanghai), December 2008

Legal and other consulting

• Consultant to corporations in the US, Europe and Japan.
• Expert in IT-related legal cases in US and Europe, 2004-present, including EU cCourt of Justice court and US International Trade Commission