Dr. Paulin is currently director of System-on-Chip Platform Automation at STMicroelectronics, Ottawa, Canada. From 1994 to 2000, he was director of Embedded Systems Technologies for ST in Grenoble, France.
Previously, he managed embedded software tools and high-level synthesis R&D with BNR, the Nortel Networks research labs, from 1984 to 1994. He  obtained his Ph.D. from Carleton University, Ottawa in 1988; and his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Laval University, Quebec in 1982 and 1984 respectively.