Jean-Yves Chouinard received the Ph.D. degree from Laval University, Quebec, Canada, in 1987. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre National d’tudes des Tlcommunications (CNET), Paris, France. From 1988 to 2002, he was a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Since 2003 is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Laval University. His research interests are communication theory and applications, wideband mobile and indoor wireless systems, and channel and source coding for advanced television systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 160 journal, conference papers and technical reports, co-editor of a book on information theory and co-author of book chapters on software reconfigurable MIMO wireless communication systems as well as time and frequency synchronization schemes for OFDM-based mobile broadcasting. He is a co-recipient of the 1999 Neal Shepherd Best Propagation Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Society and of the 2004 Signal Processing Best Paper Award from the European Journal of Signal Processing. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.