Research Interests:
Research interests include modeling of head-related transfer functions, virtual loudspeakers, dynamic synthesis of spatial audio for moving listeners, multichannel sound acquisition, virtual microphones for synthesizing multichannel recordings, microphone arrays for robust time-delay estimation in noisy environments, multichannel rendering, and streaming of multichannel audio over high-bandwidth networks.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1993, USC, Los Angeles, CA.
Prof. 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. There are currently 11 graduate students (5 PhD and 6 MSc) that are working on various aspects of immersive audio capturing and rendering. 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.
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