• Columbia University, New York, New York
  

  Doctor of Engineering Science

  Defended September 1990

  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  Thesis: Neural Network Learning and Learning Control Through
  Optimization Techniques
  

• Columbia University, New York, New York
  

  Master of Science

  May 1985

  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  

• Columbia University, New York, New York
  

  Bachelor of Science

  May 1984

  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Adjunct Professor

  Dec. 2003-Present

  Graduate courses MECE-E6602 (Applied Signal Recognition and Classification)
  A multidisciplinary course taught in the Spring semester.
  

• Recognition Technologies, Inc., White Plains, NY
  

  President and Chief Executive Officer

  Jul. 2003-Present

  Research and Development of Human Biometric systems -- Signature Verification, Speaker Verification and Identification, Handwriting Recognition and Speech Recognition.
  

• Internet Server Connections, Inc., White Plains, NY
  

  Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

  Feb. 2001-Present

  Complete technical operation of Internet Server Connections. Projects include portfolio optimization algorithm development for Merrill-Lynch (Constrained non-linear optimization problem of over 38,000 variables, The complete management of digital libraries related to Encyclopaedia Iranica, a twenty-year old effort by Columbia University and projects with over 150 Corporate clients in telecommunications.
  

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  

  Research Staff Member -- Human Language Technologies

  Feb. 1997-Feb. 2001

  Research in the fields of Speaker Recognition (Verification and Identification) and Speech Recognition and Automatic Segmentation. Developed algorithms for the IBM Research Speaker Verification and Identification Engine which is now being used in an array different products while conducting research for improving its performance. This system is completely Text Independent and is in addition Language Independent.
  

  Research Staff Member -- Pen Technologies

  Feb. 1991-Feb. 1997

  Principal Investigator and Project Leader for Pen-Based Music Editor. Research in on-line Handwriting Recognition: Developed and implemented Handwriting Recognition Algorithms in every area related to the topic. These areas include: Research and development of Search and Language Models for Cursive and Unconstrained Recognition systems as well as Discrete and Run-on versions. System architect for IBM Unconstrained Recognition system.
  Developed a model of handwriting and a model of human hand-dynamics for application in recognition of Cursive and Natural writing. Combined the above models in a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) framework. Developed a set of normalization, desloping and deslanting schemes for application to cursive handwriting recognition. Conducted research and developed on-line training capabilities for the IBM cursive recognizer.
  Research in optimal clustering techniques and Neural Network Models of Handwriting. Responsible for a major part of search and language models in the IBM product ThinkWrite TM.
  

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Adjunct Associate Professor

  Jan. 1997-De. 2003

  Taught graduate courses ME-EE-E4601 (Digital Control Systems)
  a joint course by the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments.
  

• Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Adjunct Assistant Professor

  Sep. 1995-Dec. 1997

  Taught graduate course EE-E6820 (Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Recognition) at the electrical engineering department
  

• National Technological University
  

  Adjunct Assistant Professor

  Jan. 1996-May 1996

  Taught graduate course CC751 (Speech and Handwriting Recognition)
  

• Center for Telecommunication Research, Columbia University, NY
  

  Research Specialist

  Oct. 1990-Feb. 1991

  Research in digital image coding, image data compression and transmission. Developed and implemented schemes for lossless image compression and transmission, and ultra-fast methods of image display through low-level hardware control.
  

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Research Assistant

  Dec. 1987-Sep. 1990

  Doctoral Research in the field of Learning-Adaptive Control and Neural Network Learning -- Research abstract enclosed.
  

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Research Assistant

  Dec. 1989-Sep. 1990

  Fault detection of mechanical systems and machine health prognosis. Developed practical signal processing techniques for the health prognosis of mechanical components such as bearings, gears, cutting tools, etc.
  

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Research Assistant

  Jan. 1986-Sep. 1986

  Developed a generalization theory on Kinematic Analysis of commonly used linkages.
  

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
  

  Research Assistant

  Sep. 1985-Jan. 1986

  Digital image processing applied to fluid mechanics for the analysis of lubricants' behavior in zero gravity -- An experiment conducted in conjunction with the NASA Space-Lab project.
  

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

• Senior Member, IEEE
  

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

• Best of Show Award from the Internet World Show (2002) in E-Commerce for the CommerceMadeEasy® software

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

• 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 Technological 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 Run-on 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
  

• The Maria Elena Arosemena Cup
  

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

• Active Liaison, in the U.S. Delegation of ISO/SC 37 JTC 1 WG3 (Biometrics), Standards development for Common Biometric Exchage Format.


• Active Liaison and driving force for Speaker Recognition, ANSI/INCITS, Standards development for Biometric Data Interchange Formats.


• Active Liaison and driving force, VoiceXML Forum, Standards development for Speaker Recognition (Speaker Biometrics) Data Format.


• Senior Member, IEEE, (Member Since 1989)


• Member, IEEE Control Systems Society


• Associate Editor, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, Since 1994


• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Learning and Repetitive Control, Special Issue of the Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, Volume 8, No. 2, 2002


• Member, The Advisory Board Committee of the IEEE Spectrum Magazine since May 1994


• Reviewer, Pattern Recognition Journal, since 2006


• Scientific Review Committee Member, Interspeech Conference, 2009, 2010


• Reviewer, IEEE Transaction of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)


• Reviewer, IEEE Transaction of Neural Networks


• Reviewer, International Journal of Control


• Reviewer, AIAA (American Institute of Aerospace and Avionics)


• Organizer, the Pattern Recognition Division of the World Automation Congress 2000 (WAC'2000), June 11-16, 2000


• International Technical Chair (USA), the World Manufacturing Congress 1997 and 1999


• Technical Chair, the Pattern Recognition Division of the World Automation Congress, Alaska, 1998


• Technical Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997 (ICRA 97)


• Invited Honorary Speaker, the Foundations of Distributed Information Systems (FDIS 97) conf., Aspen, Colorado, 1997


• Editor, the Handwriting section of the Berkeley Initiative on Soft Computing (BISC), since 1994


• Conference Chair, the Conference on Technological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1995


• Executive Committee Member, the Society for Technological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1991-1995


• Technical Chair, Mechanical, Chemical and Industrial Engineering Division of the Society for Technological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1991-1993

• CommerceMadeEasy®
  Winner of Best of Show Award, the Internet World Show, 2002
  Winner of Product of the Day -- Oct 25, 2002, The Linux Journal
  A Linux-based server software all components of which were developed in C++ for optimal performance and security. It is completely cookie-less and provides a secure Internet Wizard for creating new accounts. It provides services such as "Sales, Auction, Access and Contribution and now E-Learning. The Wizard may be used to quickly setup a commerce site from an existing website with advanced search, credit card gateway, security, and many other capabilities. CommerceMadeEasy® may be used to set up and create complex commerce sites, in any industry, in a matter of days. As the package was developed entirely in-house, it permits easy customization.
  

• Portfolio Optimization
  As the VP/CTO of Internet Server Connections, he contributed to the field of Optimization by addressing the problem of very large-scale portfolios optimization for Merrill-Lynch Research, 1998-2001

• IBM ViaVoice[TM]
  Contributions to the underlying algorithms of the IBM ViaVoice[TM] line of products, 1996-2000

• IBM ThinkScribe[TM] (CrossPad)
  Contributions to the underlying algorithms of the IBM ThinkScribe[TM] products -- Compression (Sole Researcher), Handwriting Recognition Technology (Principal Researcher), 1993-1996

• IBM ThinkWrite[TM]
  Contributions to the underlying algorithms of the IBM ThinkWrite[TM] products, Run-On and Discrete Handwriting Recognition Technology one of Principal Researcher, 1991-1993

• Optimization
  Applications of Optimization in very large Portfolio Optimization problems, Learning Control, Adaptive Control, Neural Network Learning. Very active in this field at the present including Research done in conjunction with the Research department of Merrill-Lynch.

• Adaptive Learning Control
  Formulated for the first time the adaptive-learning control strategies and provided solutions based on Optimization Methods, Adaptive Ideas and new parameter estimation schemes. Also formulated a continuous adaptive learning control system with a quite strong and theoretically sound control strategy based on my previous work on adaptive parameter estimation and optimization. Active in this field at the present.

• Speaker Recognition
  Developed a number of successful techniques for large population speaker recognition in addition to general research and development in the field of pattern recognition with applications to Speaker Recognition (Large-Scale Identification and Verification), Segmentation, hybrid systems with face recognition and text processing, large scale search techniques, etc. Active in this field at the present.

• Signature Recognition
  Have done quite a lot of work in this field including signature compression and recognition (identification and verification). Active in this field at the present.

• Speech Recognition
  Extensive participation in the research connected with the IBM ViaVoice product. Research areas include all aspects of Large-Vocabulary speech recognition, speech segmentation, and Small-Vocabulary systems.

• Handwriting Recognition
  Over 6 years of research in large-vocabulary, unconstrained handwriting recognition. Extensive work on Feature Extraction, Language Modeling, Compression, Segmentation and Normalization leading to a fully operational system. Presently, active in this area.

• Information Theory and Language Modeling
  Extensive research in Language Modeling and Information Theory pertaining to usage with Text Processing, Handwriting Recognition, Speech Recognition, and Hybrid Search systems using Textual Language as well as Speaker Voice and Face information.

• Neural Network Learning
  Break-throughs in highly efficient learning schemes using second order techniques in optimization for Feed-Forward Neural Network Systems. Several journal and conference papers in this field including IEEE Best Paper Award for two conference papers in the field.

• Electronic Music
  Treatment of On-line Common Music Notation using a Pen as evidenced by An IBM Adventurous Systems and Software Research (ASSR) project granted for two years

• Language Modeling
  Treatment of highly compressed dictionaries, statistical N-Grams, Template Language models and Decision-Tree-based Language Models

• Image Compression
  Created Loss-Less Image Compression schemes or storing highly prized Art Collections of the Library of Congress.

• Kinematics
  Generalization work on the Kinematic Analysis of General 4-Bar linkages (Planar, Spherical, and Skew). The generalization work resulted in a unified analysis formula which applies to all types 4-Bar linkages.

• Fluid Mechanics
  Research on Zero Gravity Fluid Behavior in conjunction with the NASA SPACE-LAB project. Experiments were carried out by the Space-Lab.

70.			Homayoon S.M. Beigi (Guest Editor) Special Issue on Learning and Repetitive Control, Special Issue of the Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, Volume 8, No. 2, 2002.

59.	Homayoon Beigi, Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition, Springer, New York, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-387-77591-3.

58.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Neural Network Learning and Learning Control Through Optimization Techniques,'' Doctoral Thesis, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York City, New York, 1991.

57.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Speaker Recognition,'' Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (2nd ed.), Henk C.A. van Tilborg and Sushil Jajodia (Eds.), Springer, New York, 2010.

56.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Pre-Processing the Dynamics of On-Line Handwriting Data, Feature Extraction and Recognition,'' Progress in Handwriting Recognition, A.C. Downton and S. Impedovo (eds.), World Scientific Publishers, New Jersey, 1997, pp. 191-198.

55.		T. Fujisaki, H.S.M. Beigi, C.C. Tappert, M. Ukelson, and C.G. Wolf, ``Online Recognition of Unconstrained Handprinting: A Stroke-based System and Its Evaluation,'' From Pixels to Features III: Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, S. Impedovo and J.C. Simon (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V., 1992, pp.297-312.

54.		Homayoon Beigi and Judith Markowitz, ``Standard Audio Format Encapsulation (SAFE),'' , Journal of Telecommunication Systems (Special Issue of Biometrics Systems & Applications), Springer-Verlag, May 26, 2010.

53.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Updating Procedures for Iterative Learning Control in Hilbert Space,'' , Invited Paper, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal (Special Issue on Learning and Repetitive Control), Vol. 8, No. 2, 2002.

52.		Mahesh Viswanathan, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Satya Dharanipragada, Fereydoun Maali, and Alain Tritschler, ``Multimedia Document Retrieval Using Speech and Speaker Recognition,'' Invited Paper, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, IJDAR, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 147-162, June 20, 2000.

51.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Adaptive and Learning-Adaptive Control Techniques based on an Extension of the Generalized Secant Method,'' Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1997, pp. 171-184.

50.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li ``Learning Algorithms for Feedforward Neural Networks Based on Classical and Initial-Scaling Quasi-Newton Methods,'' ISMM Journal of Microcomputer Applications, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1995, pp. 41-52.

49.		C. James Li, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Shengyi Li, Jiancheng Liang, ``Nonlinear Piezo-Actuator Control by Learning Self-Tuning Regulator,'' ASME Transactions, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 115, No.4, December 1993, pp. 720-723.

48.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li ``Learning Algorithms for Neural Networks Based on Quasi-Newton Methods with Self-Scaling,'' ASME Transactions, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 115, No.1, March 1993, pp. 38-43.

	47.	Ferdinand Freudenstein, Homayoon S. Mohammad Beigi, ``On a Computationally Efficient Microcomputer Kinematic Analysis of the Basic Linkage Mechanisms,'' Invited Paper Journal of Mechanism and Machine Theory, England, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1986, pp. 467-472.

46.		Homayoon Beigi ``Speaker Recognition in Distance Learning,'' SpeechTEK 2009, August 24-26, 2009, New York City, U.S.A.

45.		Homayoon Beigi ``Effects of Time Lapse on Speaker Recognition Results,'' 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 5-7, 2009, pp. 1-6.

44.		Homayoon Beigi and Judith Markowitz ``A Standard Audio Encapsulation Method,'' W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0, March 5-6, 2009, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

43.	HTML	Homayoon S.M. Beigi ``Challenges of Large-Scale Speaker Recognition,'' Keynote Speech at the COST275 Workshop on Biometrics on the Internet, October 27-28, 2005, Herfordshire University, Hatfield, United Kingdom.

42.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi ``Aggressive Compression of the Dynamics of Handwriting and Signature Signals},'' IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND EXPO (ICME2004), Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2004, Vol 2, pp. 1447-1450.

41.		M. Viswanathan, F. Maali, A. Tritschler, and H. Beigi ``Multimedia Search for the Net.,'' Proc. SSGRR 2001, 2nd Intl. Conf. on Advances in Infrastructure for E-Business, E-Science, and E-Education on the Internet, L'Aquila, Italy, August 2001.

40.		Mahesh Viswanathan, Homayoon S.M. Beigi and Fereydoun Maali, ``Information Access Using Speech, Speaker and Face Recognition ,'' 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2000), New York City, New York, USA, July 2000.

39.		Mahesh Viswanathan, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Alain Tritschler and Fereydoun Maali, ``TranSegId: A System for Concurrent Speech Transcription, Speaker Segmentation and Speaker Identification,'' WAC2000, Wailea, USA, June 11-16, 2000.

38.		Mahesh Viswanathan, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Alain Tritschler and Fereydoun Maali, ``Multimedia Content Indexing and Retrieval Using Speech and Speaker Recognition,'' Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur, RIAO2000, Paris, France, April 12-14, 2000.

37.		Konstantin E. Avrachenkov, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, and Richard W. Longman, ``Operator-Updating Procedures for Quasi-Newton Iterative Learning Control in Hilbert Space,'' Invited Paper, IEEE CDC'99, Phoenix, AZ, December 3-7, 1999.

36.		Mahesh Viswanathan, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Satya Dharanipragada, Alain Tritschler, ``Retrieval from Spoken Document using Content and Speaker Information,'' International Conference on Document Analysis and Retrieval, ICDAR99, Bangalore, India, September 20-22, 1999, pp. 576-581.

35.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes, Upendra V. Chaudhari, and Jeffrey S. Sorensen , ``A Hierarchical Approach to Large-Scale Speaker Recognition,'' EUROSPEECH'99, Budapest, Hungary, September 5-9, 1999, Vol. 5, pp. 2203-2206.

34.		Upendra V. Chaudhari, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes, and Jeffrey S. Sorensen, ``Multi-Environment Speaker Verification,'' AUTOID'99, New Jersey, 1999.

33.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and Stephane S. Maes, ``A Distance Measure Between Collections of Distributions and its Application to Speaker Recognition,'' ICASSP'98, Seattle, Washington, May. 23-27, 1998.

32.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and Stephane S. Maes, ``Speaker, Channel and Environment Change Detection,'' Proceedings of the World Congress on Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May. 18-22, 1998.

31.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes, Upendra V. Chaudhari, and Jeffrey S. Sorensen, ``IBM Model-Based and Frame-By-Frame Speaker Recognition,'' Speaker Recognition and its Commercial and Forensic Appications, Avignon, France, Apr. 20-23, 1998.

30.		Stephane H. Maes and Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Open SESAME! Speech, Password or Key to Secure Your Door?'' , Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hong Kong, Jan. 8-11, 1998.

29.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi ``Starting Up as an ISP,'' Keynote Speech at the Third Annual Workshop on Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems (FDIS'97) June 1-4, 1997, Aspen, Colorado.

28.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Processing, Modeling and Parameter Estimation of the Dynamic On-Line Handwriting Signal,'' Proceedings of the World Congress on Automation, Montpellier, France, May. 27-30, 1996.

27.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Pre-Processing the Dynamics of On-Line Handwriting, Feature Extraction and Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, Colchester, England, Sep. 2-5, 1996, pp. 255-258.

26.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Krishna S. Nathan and Jayashree Subrahmonia, ``On-Line Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition Based on Probabilistic Techniques,'' ICEE-95, Tehran, Iran, May 15-18, 1995.

25.		Krishna S. Nathan, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Gregory J. Clary, Jayashree Subrahmonia and Hiroshi Maruyama, ``Real Time On-Line Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition using Statistical Methods,'' ICASSP-95, Detroit, Michigan, May 8-12, 1995.

24.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Krishna Nathan, Gregory J. Clary, and Jayashree Subrahmonia, ``Challenges of Handwriting Recognition in Farsi, Arabic and Other Languages with Similar Writing Styles -- An On-line Digit Recognizer,'' Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Technological Advancements in Developing Countries, Columbia University, New York, July 23-24, 1994.

23.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Krishna Nathan, Gregory J. Clary, and Jayashree Subrahmonia, ``Size Normalization in Online Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition,'' The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Austin, Texas, November 13-16, 1994, Vol. I, pp. 169-172.

22.		Homayoon Beigi, ``Neural Network Learning Through Optimally Conditioned Quadratically Convergent Methods Requiring NO LINE SEARCH,'' IEEE-36th Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Detroit, Michigan, August 16-18, 1993.

21.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``An Overview of Handwriting Recognition,'' Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Technological Advancements in Developing Countries, Columbia University, New York, July 24-25, 1993, pp. 30-46.

20.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Automation in Manufacturing,'' Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Technological Advancements in Developing Countries, Columbia University, New York, July 24-25, 1993, pp. 85-92.

19.		Tetsu Fujisaki, Krishna Nathan, Wongyu Cho and Homayoon Beigi, ``On-line Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition by Probabilistic Methods,'' The 3rd International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, Buffalo, New York, May 25-27, 1993.

18.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, T. Fujisaki, W. Modlin, and K. Wenstrup, ``A Post-Processing Error-Correction Scheme Using a Dictionary for On-Line Boxed and Runon Handwriting Recognition,'' Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 13-16, 1992, Vol. II, pp. TM10.5.1-4.

17.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, ``Character Prediction for On-line Handwriting Recognition,'' Proc. of Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 13-16, 1992, Vol. II, pp. TM10.3.1-4.

16.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi and T. Fujisaki, ``A Character Level Predictive Language Model and Its Application to Handwriting Recognition,'' Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 13-16, 1992, Vol. I, pp. WA1.27.1-4.

15.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi and T. Fujisaki, ``A Flexible Template Language Model and its Application to Handwriting Recognition,'' Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 13-16, 1992, Vol. I, pp. WA1.28.1-4.

14.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, ``An Adaptive Control Scheme Using the Generalized Secant Method,'' Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 13-16, 1992, Vol. II, pp. TA7.21.1-4.

13.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, ``A Parallel Network Implementation of The Generalized Secant Learning-Adaptive Controller,'' Proc. of Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 13-16, 1992, Vol. II, pp. MM10.1.1-4.

12.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi, C. James Li and R.W. Longman, ``Learning Control Based on Generalized Secant Methods and Other Numerical Optimization Methods,'' Sensors, Controls, and Quality Issues in Manufacturing, ASME:Atlanta, PED-Vol.55, pp. 163-175, December 1991.

11.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li, ``Learning Algorithms for Neural Networks Based on Quasi-Newton Methods with Self-Scaling,'' Intelligent Control Systems, Dynamic Systems and Control Vol. 23, the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, Nov. 25-30, 1990, pp. 23-28.

10.		C. James Li, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Shengyi Li, and Jiancheng Liang, ``A Self-tuning Regulator with Learning Parameter Estimation,'' Robotics Research, Dynamic Systems and Control Vol. 26, The ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, Nov. 25-30, 1990, pp. 1-6.

9.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li, ``New Neural Network Learning Based on Gradient-Free Optimization Methods,'' Recipient of IEEE Best Paper Award, The IEEE 1990 Long Island Student Conference on Neural Networks, Old Westbury, NY, April 21, 1990, pp. 9-12.

8.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li, ``Neural Network Learning Based on Quasi-Newton Methods with Initial Scaling of Inverse Hessian Approximate,'' Recipient of IEEE Best Paper Award, The IEEE 1990 Long Island Student Conference on Neural Networks, Old Westbury, NY, April 21, 1990, pp. 49-52.

7.		Homayoon S.M. Beigi and C. James Li, ``A New Set of Learning Algorithms for Neural Networks,'' Proc. of the ISMM International Symposium, Computer Applications in Design, Simulation and Analysis, New Orleans, LA, March 5-7, 1990, pp. 277-280.

6.		R. W. Longman, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, C. James Li, ``Learning Control by Numerical Optimization Methods,'' Proceedings of the Modeling and Simulation Conference, Control, Robotics, Systems and Neural Networks, Pittsburgh, PA, Vol. 20, May 1989, pp. 1877-1882.

5.		Homayoon Beigi ``Computer Rating of Oral Test Responses using Verbosity,'' Recognition Technologies Technical Report No. RTI-20091211-01, 2009.

4.		Homayoon Beigi ``Whether Computer Analyses Can Predict Human Ratings of Speaking Proficiency,'' Recognition Technologies Technical Report No. RTI-20081205-01, 2008.

3.		Konstantin E. Avrachenkov, Homayoon S. M. Beigi, and Richard W. Longman ``Updating Procedures for Iterative Learning Control in Hilbert Space,'' IBM Research Technical Report No. RC21558, 1999.

2.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes ``Speaker, Channel and Environment Change Detection,'' IBM Research Technical Report No. RC21022, 1997.

1.		Homayoon S. M. Beigi, ``Neural Network Learning Through Optimization Techniques,'' (Invited) Neural Networks Internal Technological Liaison (ITL), IBM Fishkill, NY, May 11-13, 1992.