This post is in two ways a very partial view of the Java Card community: it only represents a part of the people in it, and it is based on my vision of the community. Many people are missing, and I apologize to them. Form any others, the résumé is not up-to-date; I have tried wherever possible to include a link to a personal page of some kind.
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- Eric Alzai
Head of R&D when Gemplus started working on Java Card. He then became Oberthur’s CTO, strongly supporting Java Card, and recnetly moved to Inside Contactless, also as CTO. - Isabelle Attali
Isabelle Attali was Research Manager at INRIA (responsible for the OASIS team) when she tragically disappeared during a mission in Sri Lanka in 2004. Among other things, she has worked on development and verification tools for Java Card. She also organized the first Java Card Workshop in 2000, which later became e-Smart. The yearly e-Smart innovation prize is named after her.
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- Ram Banerjee
Ram currently leads the world-wide marketing team for Java Card at Sun Microsystems. Before that, he held various positions in European smart card companies, including ActivCard, TrustEra. He was also involved in the development of OSCAR, an early open operating system, in the beginning of the 1990’s. - Gilles Barthe
Research Manager at INRIA, responsible for the Everest team, Gilles’ main research interests are formal methods, programming languages, and security. He has worked on the formalization of Java Card, in particular as thesis advisor for Guillaume Dufay and Mariela Pavlova. He currently heads the Mobius IST Project. - Patrick Biget
- Dominique Bolignano
Representative of Bull CP8 in the JCF’s Technical Committee, Dominique has been a significant contributor to Java Card 2.0 and 2.1. He created Trusted Logic in 1999, where he currently is CEO. - Alan Brenner
Alan was technical lead of Integrity Arts, and he integrated Sun Microsystems when they purchased Integrity Arts. He then became quie successful there, first being Techical Lead for Java Card, and then led the launch of Java ME. He currently is Vice President, Mobility Group at Sun Microsystems. - Peter Bühler
Responsible for the team of researchers who initially developed the JCOP card in Zurich, which was interesting in 1998 because of its exclusive focus on speed. Peter contributed to proving that the efficiency of a Java Card card can be comparable to the efficiency of a native card.
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- Peter Cattaneo
Peter was involved in Integrity Arts, and he joined Sun when they bought the company. He has been responsible for the marketing of Java Card for many years. He still works at Sun, although on larger devices. - Olivier Chamley
Olivier is the Java Card Technical Lead at Oberthur. He has been an active member of the Java Card Forum since its inaugural meeting in 1997, and he has led many task forces in the JCF. - Serge Chaumette
Serge is Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He started a first project on Java Card security, in collaboration with the SERMA evaluation laboratory. He and his team then moved on to other related topics, including some nice research on Java Card grid computing. - Zhiqun Chen
Zhiqun is the only author of a book dedicated to Java Card. She also led the work on JSR-177, which defined the interface between smart cards and mobile phones. - Boutheina Chetali
She has been working for several years on formal models for Java Card, and on Common Criteria, and she participates actively to the Security work in both the Java Card Forum and the GlobalPlatform consortium. She currently heads the Formal Methods and Security Group at Gemalto. - Vincent Cordonnier
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- Bertrand du Castel
The most influential person in the first 10 years of Java Card. The technology was created by his team in Shlumberger, and he was the JCF’s Technical Committee Chairman from the creation of the JCF in 1997 to June 2006. Now back to Schlumberger, as a fellow, and also an author.
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- Frank Edme
Frank Edme entered Gemplus in the early 1990’s, where he held numerous positions. When he was Director of Technology and Innovation, he has been the third Chairman of the JCF’s Business Committee, replacing Alain Sigaud. He left Gemplus at the end of 2006 (and the JCF) to pursue personal interests.
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- Augustin Farrugia
One of the original Gemplus representatives in the JCF, Augustin has also been one of the main architects of the SIM card specification, leading to the greatest success of the smart card industry. He currently works on security for Apple.
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- Christian Goire
- Gilles Grimaud
Gilles Grimaud started his contribution to Java Card as a Gemplus intern, when he coded the first 32-bit Java Card Virtual Machine, with a very bad ARM development environment (and no source debugging). He then made a thesis on designing optimized card runtime environments, and still pursues similar interests as an associate professor at the University of Lille. Gilles Grimaud is vice-president of ACM SIGOPS’ French Chapter. - Klaus Gungl
Klaus is a key figure of GlobalPlatform. He works for IBM, and when he started working on Open Platform in 1997, he was working as a technology consultant at Visa. One of the original designers of GlobalPlatform, he remains very active in the development of the specification, as GP Vice-Chair, and activiely led the work on PKI for GP2.2. - Scott Guthery
Led the development of the first Cyberflexx at Schlumberger, and then moved on to defining the less successful Smart Card for Windows at Microsoft. He now is the CTO of Mobile Mind, and he chairs Architecture Working Group of ETSI’s Smart Card Platform Project.
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- Marc Kekicheff
- Ksheerabdhi Krishna
A member of the Schlumberger team that created the original Cyberflex. Has successively represented Schlumberger, Axalto, and Gemalto in the JCF since 1997. Has also worked on the .NET card. Still an active member of the JCF.
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- Jean-Louis Lanet
Jean-Louis was the formal method specialist in the Gemplus Research Group as the original work on Java Card 2.1 was performed. He worked on various modeling and proof topics, including building an on-card bytecode verifier (the first?) for Java Card. After two years at INRIA and a short return to Gemalto, he now heads a team working on Java Card security at University of Limoges. - Laurent Lagosanto
One of the main architects of the Java Card Bandol specification, he is also the first one to have shown at JavaOne’05 a live demo of a Bandol card. He currently works at Gemalto. - Xavier Leroy
Research director at INRIA, Xavier worked for a few years with Trusted Logic, where he developed the first on-card bytecode verifier for Java Card. - Claire Loiseaux
Led many works on Java Card and Common Criteria, from the first Common Criteria evaluation of a Java Card product to the development of the Java Card Protection Profile. She currently is CEO of Trusted Labs, the security services company in Trusted Logic.
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- Philippe Maes
Philippe is one of Gemplus’ founders, with an important technical role. He les the Gemplus delegation at the first Java Card Forum meeting, and he followed the technology for several years, providing his experience when required. He is nos retired, and co-managing a fund for start-up companies. - Michael Montgomery
Has successively represented Schlumberger, Axalto, and Gemalto in the JCF from 1997 to 2006. He left Gemalto to get back to Schlumberger in 2006.
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- Pierre Paradinas
As head of Gemplus’ research unit, Pierre has been a major contributor to smart card research. The first Java Card implementation at Gemplus was developed by his team. He left Gemplus to teach at CNAM, and recently moved to INRIA. - Patrice Peyret
In the early 90’s, Patrice Peyret was R&D director for Gemplus. He left to create Integrity Arts, to create “open” operating systems. He did not foresee the Java wave, but he still caught it, as Integrity Arts was purchased by Sun to create the backbone of its Java Card team. Patrice then went on to found MobileWay, which was later bought by Sybase. His latest company is Plastyc, a Web payment company marketing Visa prepaid cards to teenagers. Patrice has had a very strong impact on the Java Card 2.0 and 2.1 specifications. - Erik Poll
A researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen who is very active in research around Java Card, in particular designing formal models of the technology.
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- Tanjore Ravishankar
Originally from Integrity Arts, Ravi now is the most senior Java Card engineer at Sun, and he leads their technical team at the Java Card Forum. With his calm and his ability to endlessly repeat his point of view, he has contributed more than any other Sun employee to Java Card, and he still does. - Simon Reed has been representing Orga, and then SagemOrga in the JCF’s Business Committee for many years. He currently is Marketing Chairman of the Business Committee, in charge of marketing actions. As a true English man, Simon has often been a man of peace in a troubled JCF.
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- Damien Sauveron
- Alain Sigaud
Alain worked at Bull before to join Gemplus. He became the leader of Gemplus’ Java Card Taks Force in 1998, and led the release of their first Java Card products. He replaced Michel Roux as head of the Java Card Forum’s Business Committee, and took more responsibilty in Gemplus R&D. He later took over as chief of the card reader’s Business Unit, and was replaced by Frank Edme in his two roles, at Gemplus and at the Java Card Forum.
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- Pascal Urien
A long-time researcher at CP8, he got famous for his work on TCP/IP on smart cards. He became a teacher at Sup’Telecom (ENST), and his current interests are around the use of Java Card for wireless security.
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- Jean-Jacques Vandewalle
Main contributor to Java Card RMI, Jean-Jacques introduced the notion of distributed objects in card with his work on CORBA. Currently in Gemalto, he contributes to the Java Card Bandol specification, in particular on topics related to the application framework. - Patrick van Haver
Java Card Architect at Gemplus/Gemalto since 2000, heading the Gemplus/Gemalto contribution to the Java Card Forum since then. One of the major contributors to Java Card 3.0, because of his right mix of practical smart card experience and participation to Gemplus’ Web smart card projects. - Eric Vétillard
The author of this blog, a contributor to Java Card technology since the beginning. Was Java Card Architect at Gemplus until 2000, when he moved to Trusted Logic. Currently CTO of Trusted Labs, and Chairman of the Java Card Forum’s Technical Committee. - Thierry Violleau
Architect at Sun Microsystems, one of the most recent contributors to Java Card, and one of the lead architects of Bandol, in particular on the Web part.
