Jean-François Mainguet
Jean-François Mainguet is currently Biometrics Chief Scientist of Atmel's biometrics business unit located near Grenoble, France.

Mr. Mainguet is the inventor of the sweeping technique for direct silicon fingerprint scanning used in the FingerChip® project.

Since joining Thomson-CSF Semiconducteurs Spécifiques (TCS) in 1984, he has been engaged in the development of SOS and SOI rad-hard semiconductor devices, electrical simulation, layout & mask design tools, and analog to digital converter design. TCS became Atmel-Grenoble in 2000.

Mr. Mainguet became an engineer for Télécommunications de Bretagne in 1984.