About me

I am currently the CTO and co-founder of the IDCapture startup, which develops software solutions for itinerant and collaborative work. I am also a professor/researcher in the software engineering department at ISEP, a French Engineering School (Grande Ecole) in Paris, France. I got my PhD from the CNAM, Paris, France in 2002. I was formerly working at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) on the East cost of the US, and before that, I was an INRIA researcher in France. My main interest is Software Engineering and especially all that goes along with Distributed Middleware, Software and Code Quality (generative programming and static analysis in particular). As a researcher and independent programmer, I have started and worked on many open source projects.

Important facts

I hold an engineering degree in Electronics and a PhD in Computer Science.
I am currently on developing many innovative projects using Web development, AJAX, and Web Services.
I am currently working toward getting a Master of Management to acquire fundammental managerial skills (Organizational Behavior, Business Economics, Finance, etc).
Throughout my life, I always have been developing software and administrating IT solutions for various customers (for example Lyonnaise des Eaux/SUEZ and France Television).
Besides working as an independent consultant, I also co-founded several companies, including IDCapture.
I was a pioneer on Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and developed the very first working generic frameworks for AOP, first in TCL/TK (ATOS) during my MSc, and then in Java (Java Aspect Components) during my PhD.
I wrote two books on AOP.
Java Aspect Components project was used in the academic and industrial worlds. It is part of the ObjectWeb consortium. It is also one of the projects that made JBoss AOP and Spring AOP started.
In 2005, I started the Spoon project at INRIA.
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Selected publications and achievements

	The Spoon project, a Java source code manipulation framework, at http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/.
	A tutorial on Spoon at EclipseCON 2007: download the files here.
	An online paper on my Spoon project: R. Pawlak – Spoon: Compile-time Annotation Processing for Middleware – IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 11, 2006, art. no. 0611-oy001. http://dsonline.computer.org/...
	The JAC project: a dynamic Aspect-Oriented Programming framework in Java, at http://jac.objectweb.org/.
	An online paper about my JAC project, at http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2003/jw-0307-jac.html.
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