Awards and Honors

  • IMAC Best Paper Award: Dynamics of Civil Structures Technical Division, 2021, for "Transfer Learning from Audio Domains a Valuable Tool for Structural Health Monitoring"

  • Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award, 2011 for the RecoMadeEasy® Speaker Recognition Engine

  • Top 10% Valuable Patent, IBM Reseaech
    Patent Number: 6,421,645 was recognized by IBM Research as one of top 10% Valuable Patents in 2003 .

  • Best of Show Award from the Internet World Show (2002, Jacob Javits Center, New York City) in E-Commerce for the CommerceMadeEasy® software

  • Product of the Day -- Oct 25, 2002, The Linux Journal, for the CommerceMadeEasy® software

  • Senior Member, IEEE

  • Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society (Columbia University -- Kappa Chapter), Full Member

  • Third Plateau Invention Award, IBM Research
    Presented to an Individual with 12 accepted Patent Disclosures

  • Second Plateau Invention Award, IBM Research
    Presented to an Individual with 8 accepted Patent Disclosures

  • First Plateau Invention Award, IBM Research
    Presented to an Individual with 4 accepted Patent Disclosures

  • Research Division Award, IBM Research
    Transcription System for Virage, 1998

  • Research Division Award, IBM Research
    For the Success of the Network Vehicle, 1997

  • Research Division External Honors Award, IBM Research
    In Recognition of the honor of being elected as an Associate Editor of the Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, 1996

  • Research Division External Honors Award, IBM Research
    In Recognition of the honor of being elected as The Conference Chair for the Conference on Techonological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1995

  • IBM Research Division's Adventurous System and Software Research (ASSR) award
    ASSR Award of $110,000 in 1995 for research in the field of Handwriting Recognition for CMN (Common Music Notation) -- Of the 5 winners of a total of $250,000 for the first year this award was established, received $110,000 being the highest among the 5 winners

  • Research Division Award, IBM Research
    In Recognition of the Contributions to Discrete and Runon Handwriting Recognition, 1994

  • Elected as Associate Editor for the Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, 1994

  • Research Division Award, IBM Research
    For the Role in the "ThinkWrite" IBM Handwriting Success, 1993

  • First Patent Award, IBM Research, 1991

  • IEEE Best Paper Award
    Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li, ``New Neural Network Learning Based on Gradient-Free Optimization Methods'', IEEE Conference on Neural Networks, 1990

  • IEEE Best Paper Award
    Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li, ``Neural Network Learning Based on Quasi-Newton Methods with Initial Scaling of Inverse Hessian Approximate,'' IEEE Conference on Neural Networks, 1990

  • Bausch and Laumb Science Award, 1981

  • The Maria Elena Arosemena Cup, 1980

  • The Bancroft Phinney Award
    Presented to the Student with Highest Academic Standing, 1980

Homayoon Beigi