Chris Kyriakakis is a professor of electrical engineering, author, and inventor of audio technologies.
Education
Kyriakakis attended high school at Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1993.
Career
Notably he is the co-inventor of the Audyssey MultEQ digital room correction system. Chris Kyriakakis teaches audio signal processing and psychoacoustics at the University of Southern California. Faculty Experience Kyriakakis was appointed to the Electrical engineer Systems faculty at University of Southern California in 1996 where he became the founding director of the University of Southern California Immersive Audio Laboratory.
He was part of the original team of researchers that founded the Integrated Media Systems Center, a National Science Foundation engineering research center that was awarded to University of Southern California in 1996.
He later served as the Director of the Computer Interfaces group. Kyriakakis" research has focused on the intersection of acoustics, psychoacoustics and audio signal processing.
Together with his students he published papers on virtual microphones, immersive audio rendering and the characterization and correction of room acoustics. Recent Work Together with Professor
Audio Industry In 2004 he co-founded Audyssey Laboratories.
Publicity and In 2006 he was awarded the World Technology Award in Media and Journalism. In 2011 his research was featured in the New York Times. In 2012 his research was featured in National Public Radio All Things Considered.