François Pachet (born 10 January 1964) is a French scientist, composer and director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab.

Pachet graduated from École des ponts ParisTech in Civil Engineering, and Computer Science in 1987, majoring Applied Mathematics.

He obtained a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Computer Science, (His thesis was "Knowledge representation with objects and rules: the NéOpus system", supervised by Jean-François Perrot).

He was auditeur at the 58th national session of Institut des Hautes Etudes en Défense Nationale,[3] in 2006, and was appointed Colonel in 2007 in the "réserve citoyenne" (French Air Force).

In 1993, he was appointed Assistant Professor (in French, "Maitre de conférences"), at Pierre and Marie Curie University until 1997 in Computer Science, Research and Teaching.

The CSL (the branch of Sony-CSL Tokyo) is dedicated to basic research in computer science; it was created by Luc Steels and Mario Tokoro in 1996.

Pachet writes about using CP techniques to model style in music and text for ACP (Association for Constraints Programming), in September 2015.