Frank Robert Kschischang[3] (born 15 September 1962) is a German-born Canadian electrical engineer and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto,[4] and holds a Canada Research Chair in communication algorithms.
[5] Kschischang was born in Mettmann of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany[1] and moved to Canada for his university education.
in 1985 and then at the University of Toronto, where he received his PhD in electrical engineering under the supervision of Subbarayan Pasupathy in 1991.
[2] From the late 1990s till early 2000s, Kschischang and Brendan Frey co-invented factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference.
[6][7] Kschischang became a Fellow of the IEEE for his "contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes.