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V. Choqueuse, He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in computer science and the M.Sc. degree in statistics from Troyes University of Technology (UTT), France, and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in digital communications from University of he has been an Associate Professor at the University Technology Institute (IUT) His current research interests focus on signal processing and statistics for communications, diagnosis, and digital audio, 1981.