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10 Facts About Chris Kyriakakis

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Chris Kyriakakis was born on 1963 and is a professor of electrical engineering, author, and inventor of audio technologies.

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Chris Kyriakakis is the co-inventor of the Audyssey MultEQ digital room correction system.

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Chris Kyriakakis received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech in 1985 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1993.

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Chris Kyriakakis was appointed to the EE Systems faculty at USC in 1996 where he became the founding director of the USC Immersive Audio Laboratory.

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Chris Kyriakakis teaches audio signal processing, acoustics, and psychoacoustics at the University of Southern California.

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Chris Kyriakakis 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 USC in 1996.

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Chris Kyriakakis later served as the Director of the Computer Interfaces group.

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Chris Kyriakakis has authored and co-authored nearly 100 peer reviewed technical papers.

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Chris Kyriakakis' research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the United States Army, as well as several industry sponsors.

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Sharon Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis is part of an interdisciplinary group that is studying the role of acoustics in Byzantine churches.