Philippe Kruchten

In 1975, Kruchten received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France, an MA in Software Engineering in 1978 at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in Paris, and a PhD in computer science from the French Institute of Telecommunications in 1986.

In the new millennium in Canada he received a Certificate in Intercultural Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2002.

[1] In 1974, Kruchten started working as a FORTRAN programmer in a French computer firm, stationed for three months at IBM in London.

In 1976, he became an assistant professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris for years, and has kept switching between the academic world and the computer industry ever since.

Since 2004, he holds a position as Professor of Software Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.