Jehan-François Pâris is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston. He often spends his sabbaticals at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is a frequent collaborator. In 2013, he was Professeur Invité at Université Paris–Dauphine.

He is the developer of the witness concept for replicated data, is a leader in video transmission protocols, and is now working in self-adaptive RAID architectures.