Homayoon Beigi

Since the mid 1980s, Homayoon Beigi has conducted research and development in the fields of Biometrics, Pattern Recognition and Internet-Commerce. His work, as the President of Recognition Technologies, Inc., has included research and development, leading to the production of a series of Speaker Recognition, Speech Recognition, Face Recognition, and Signature Recognition software engines. As the Vice President of Internet Server Connetions, Inc. He has developed the multiple-award winning Commerce Made Easy®, an elaborate Electronic Commerce system used world-wide. In addition, since 1995, he has been an Adjunct Professor, at the Computer Science department, as well as Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments of Columbia University , he has been teaching the following graduate courses, "Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition (COMS-E6998-005)," "Fundamentals of Speech Recognition (COMS-E6998-004)," "Digital Control Systems (EEME-E4601y)," "Applied Signal Recognition and Classification (ME-E6620y)", and "Speech and Handwriting Recognition (EE-E6820x)," which was also being distributed in Video through the Columbia Video Network. Homayoon Beigi is also actively involved in several standards bodies. He has been an active liaison in the US delegation of the ISO/SC37-JTC1-WG3. He has also been a active liaison and the driving force behind the Audio Format for ANSI/INCITES M1 (Biometric Data Interchange Format) committee. In addition, he has been an active liaison in the VoiceXML Forum committe on Speaker Biometrics. Homayoon Beigi received his Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in 1984, 1985 and 1990 respectively. His Doctoral thesis was on Learning Control and Neural Network Learning.