Ali Khenchaf (Member Senior, IEEE) received his PhD degree from the University of Nantes, France in 1992. From 1993, Dr Khenchaf was a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Nantes and a researcher, first at the SEI laboratory and then at the IRCCyN laboratory (UMR CNRS 6597). In 2000, he obtained his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches.
He is currently a Full Professor at ENSTA Bretagne, where he directed the E3I2 laboratory (EA3876) from September 2001 to December 2011.
In January 2012, he joined the Lab-STICC UMR CNRS 6285, where he was, from 2012 to 2020, the head of the PIM (Propagation and Multi-scale Interaction) team and, since 2021, has been the head of the SyPH (Photonic Systems and Microwaves) department. His research interests include the following areas:
Multiscale and Multiphysics EM modeling, the propagation and interaction of EM waves, active or passive observation systems (Radar, GNSS, etc.), radar signal and image processing (clutter, detection, location, and tracking of radar targets), Microwave remote sensing (including the inversion problem).
He is the author or co-author of more than 380 scientific articles in international journals and conferences.
He has assumed responsibility for more than 56 scientific projects contracted in partnership with industry and state organizations.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of three international journals.
He is an Expert with several agencies and organizations in France and abroad.