Jean Bezivin, University of Nantes, France

Jean Bézivin is professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes, France.

He got his Master degree from the University of Grenoble and Ph.D. from the University of Rennes. Since 1980 he has been very active in Europe in the object-oriented community, participating in the creation of the ECOOP series of conference, the TOOLS series of conferences, and more recently the MODELS (previously UML) series of conferences. He founded in 1979, at the University of Nantes, one of the first Master programs in Software Engineering entirely devoted to Object Technology (Data Bases, Concurrency, Languages and Programming, Analysis and Design, etc.).

His present research interests include model engineering and more especially the techniques of model transformation applied to data engineering and to software forward and reverse engineering.

He is a member and deputy-lead of the ATLAS group, a new INRIA team created at the University of Nantes in relation with the LINA CNRS Lab. He has published many papers and organized tutorials and workshops in the domains of concurrency, simulation, object-oriented programming, and model-driven engineering. On the subjects of model-driven engineering and MDA™, he has recently been leading the OFTA industrial group in France, co-animating a CNRS specific action and a Dagstuhl seminar. He is a member of the ECOOP and MODELS/UML steering committees. He was co-chair of ECOOP'2006 and PC chair of TOOLS'2007.