I just complete my PhD program with the University of Grenoble and STMicroelectronics, in which I proposed a new dimension for interactive debugging, based on the programming model and runtime environments used to develop the application.
I am a Free & Open Source Software enthusiast, I did my all PhD work with free tools (GNU/Linux OS, Emacs, LaTeX, GCC, ...) and contributed code patches to GDB, the debugger of the GNU project.