Ediguer E. Franco was born in Ibagué, Colombia, in 1973. He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Universidad de Ibagué in 2002 and M.S. and Ph.D. de­grees from the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EPUSP), São Paulo, Brazil, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, he has been an associate professor in the Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente in Cali, Colombia, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at EPUSP in 2019. Professor Franco is an IEEE Member and his areas of interest are the ultrasonic characterization of materials, acoustic fields, and numerical methods for mechanical engineering.