Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Computer Science Department,
Columbia University

Topic: Mobile Device Transaction Using Multi-Factor Authentication

Abstract: A system is discussed in which a person may use a smart Cellular (Mobile) Telephone, a PDA or any other handheld computer as an authentication mechanism to make a purchase or conduct any other transaction which requires authentication, such as any financial transaction, any access control (to account information, etc.), and any physical access scenario such as doubling for a passport or an access key to a restricted area (office, vault, etc.). It may also be used to conduct remote transactions such as those conducted on the Internet (E-Commerce, account access, etc.). In the process, a multi-factor authentication is used. The discussed system may be used in the absence of a central network connection, only using a local network.

Presenter: Dr. Homayoon Beigi, President, Recognition Technologies, Inc. Homayoon Beigi earned his BS, MS, and PhD from Columbia University in 1984, 1985 and 1990 respectively. For over two decades, he has been involved in research and development in Biometrics, Pattern Recognition and Internet-Commerce. He has developed the award-winning RecoMadeEasy® Speaker Recognition and the multiple-award winning, CommerceMadeEasy® software. He has been an Adjunct Professor since 1995, teaching "Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition, "Applied Signal Recognition," "Speech and Handwriting Recognition," and "Digital Control Systems" at the CS, ME, and EE departments of Columbia University. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1991 to 2001, working on Speaker Recognition, ASR, LM, Search, Handwriting Recognition, Control, and NN Learning. He developed the SAFE Audio ANSI standard and was an active liaison in the US delegation of the ISO/SC37-JTC1-WG3 and the VoiceXML Forum on Speaker Biometrics. His other research includes Image Compression, Kinematics, Financial Optimization, and Zero-Gravity Fluid Dynamics. He is the author of the first textbook on Speaker Recognition, entitled, "Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition", a recipient of two IEEE best paper awards and ten issued patents. He is an Associate Editor of the AutoSoft Journal, the Editor of the BISC Handwriting Recognition Chapter, a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Advisory Board Committee member of the IEEE Spectrum, and a reviewer for many Journal and conferences including the Pattern Recognition Journal, the IEEE PAMI, the IEEE Trans. on NN, the IET Signal Processing Journal, the International Journal of Control, the AIAA Journal, ICASSP, and Interspeech.