Homayoon S. M. Beigi

Homayoon Beigi is an Iranian-American engineer and researcher specializing in biometrics, speaker recognition, handwriting recognition, machine learning, signal processing, and control systems. He is a professor of Professional Practice in the Departments of electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the head of research and development at Recognition Technologies, Inc. He is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition.

Early life and education Beigi was born in Tehran in 1964 and lived there until the age of 15. He attended Alborz High School in Tehran through the 9th grade. A 2023 Columbia Engineering alumni note states that he met his wife, Pargol, also a Columbia engineer, while in the doctoral program. In 2011, TMCnet reported that the company's speaker-recognition engine received Frost & Sullivan's North American New Product Innovation Award. His publications also include the encyclopedia entry "Speaker Recognition" in the second edition of Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security.

He also co-authored the 2011 article "Standard audio format encapsulation (SAFE)". A 2021 paper that he co-authored on transfer learning for structural health monitoring received the best paper award from the Dynamics of Civil Structures technical division at IMAC-XXXIX. According to Columbia, he has participated in biometrics standards work through ISO/SC37-JTC1-WG3, the VoiceXML Forum, and ANSI/INCITS M1. Ensemble and event listings identify him as a tar player in New York performances.

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