Peter Kairouz

Peter Kairouz

Student Presentation

    Organization:

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Speaker Biography:

  • Peter Kairouz was born on September 24, 1988 in Beirut, Lebanon. He studied electrical and computer engineering from 2006 to 2010 at the American University of Beirut. He is the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin scholarship from the United States Agency for International Development and the Distinguished Graduating Student Award from the electrical and computer engineering department at the American University of Beirut. Currently, he is an Ms./PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is working on multi-mode optical fiber communications and iterative detection and decoding for MIMO systems. He is also interested in reduced complexity graphical model algorithms for machine learning applications and communication systems.