Slim Chaoui received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1997 and the PhD degree in telecommunications from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany in 2003. Currently, he is Associate Professor with Jouf University in KSA. His research interests are focused on wireless communication, channel coding/decoding, cooperative communications, lossless image compression, and joint source and channel coding/decoding.