Ann Franchois

Ann Franchois (SM'99) received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 1988 and the DEA and Ph.D. degrees in optics and photonics from the University of Paris-Sud, Paris, France, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, she was with the Research Division of Alcatel Bell Telephone in Antwerp, working on EMC and from 1996 to 1999, she was with the Joint Research Center of the Commission of the European Communities in Ispra, working on microwave sensing applications. From 1999 to 2000, she held a postdoctoral teaching-research position in the Electromagnetics Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2000, she joined the Department of Information Technology at the Ghent University, where she is currently a part-time Associate Professor. Her research interests include inverse scattering and imaging.