SAVARD Anne

Anne Savard (IEEE S’13, M’16, SM’24) has been a full professor at IMT Nord Europe, France in the Center for Digital Systems (CERI SN) since December 2025. From September 2016 to November 2025, she was an associate professor (enseignante chercheuse) at IMT Nord Europe in the CERI SN. She currently leads HIDE (Human, Interaction Data Ecosystem), one of the three research groups of the CERI SN of IMT Nord Europe, jointly with Halim Benhabiles. 

She received her HDR habilitation degree from CY Cergy Paris University, France in July 2023. She received the Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Multimedia Systems from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA), Cergy-Pontoise, France, and the M.Sc. degree in Intelligent and Communicating Systems from Université Cergy-Pontoise, France both in 2012. She obtained the Ph.D. from the University Cergy-Pontoise in 2015. In 2015-2016, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.

Since February 2023, she has served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking. From January 2020 to February 2023, she served as Executive Editor for Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. 

Since January 2024, she has been a member of the IEEE SPCOM Technical Committee, where she served as Chair of the Nominations and Elections subcommittee in 2025. 

Her research interests lie in multi-user information theory, cooperative communications, optimization, energy-efficient communications, physical layer security and AI-enabled communications.