Philippe Krief is the Research Relations Director of the Eclipse Foundation. He is a project leader, expert in object-oriented design, embedded development, development tools, and Agile-Scrum development process. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, option Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Development Environments from University Paris VIII, France in 1990.
He has a passion for Eclipse since its beginning, early 2000 when he was involved in the early versions of the Eclipse platform. Before joining the Eclipse Foundation staff, he worked 18 years for IBM as Senior Architect, Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management evangelist, and R&D Development Manager.
Today, Philippe is supervising the team collaborating European research projects (Horizon Europe, ITEA, and KDT), mainly for dissemination, community building, and open-source best practices tasks. To date, the Foundation has participated in 15 projects and is involved in 8 new projects.