Career
He is a co-inventor of the factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference. Professor Kschischang is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "for contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes." He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Professor Kschischang is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Information Theory.