Mahmood Bijankhan

Mahmoud Bijankhan (; born 1958 in Abadan) is an Iranian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Tehran. He is the creator of Bijankhan Corpus and a winner of Khwarizmi International Award. Bijankhan received his BSc in applied mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington (1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from the University of Tehran. He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.

Books Phonology: Optimality Theory, Tehran: SAMT, 2006 A Feasibility Study for Analysis of Ezafe in Persian Using Pattern Matching, Tehran: Research Center for Culture, Art and Communication, 2008 Persian Language and Computers (ed.), Tehran: SAMT, 2011 Frequency Dictionary, Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 2013 Phonetic System of the Persian Language, Tehran: SAMT, 2014