Anne Savard (IEEE S'13, M'16, SM'24) is an associate professor (enseignante chercheuse) at IMT Nord Europe in the Center for Digital Systems (CERI SN) since September 2016. She serves currently as the team leader of HIDE (Human, Interaction Data Ecosystem), one of the three research groups of the CERI SN of IMT Nord Europe, jointly with Anthony Fleury. 

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 of Cergy-Pontoise in 2015. In 2015-2016, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.

Since February 2023, she serves 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 the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. 

Since January 2024, she is a member of the IEEE SPCOM Technical Committee, where she currently serves as the Chair of the Nominations and Elections subcommittee. 

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

Research interests: 

• Multi-user information theory

• Cooperative communications

• Resource allocation and optimization

• AI-enabled communications

• NOMA, RIS, SWIPT

• Channel coding

• Physical layer security