Chris Kyriakakis
ORG University of Southern California
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BIO
Prof. Chris Kyriakakis is one of the key investigators in the
Integrated Media Systems Center at USC, a National
Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. He
currently serves as the acting Research Associate Director
for the Sensory Interfaces area within IMSC. He has established the Immersive Audio Laboratory with facilities for experimental work in multichannel and spatial
audio. The main focus of his research is on the development of algorithms,
architectures, and systems that can capture and synthesize
fully-immersive 3-D aural environments for multiple listeners.
Prof. Kyriakakis is a member of the IEEE, the Acoustical
Society of America, and the Audio Engineering Society.
He was recently elected as a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia.
He has served as a member of the AES task force for the evaluation of
proposed standards for the audio-only version of the Digital Video Disc (DVD), as well as the International Alliance for Multichannel Music (IAMM) for the
advancement of multichannel audio recording and reproduction.