Mahmood Bijankhan

Mahmood Bijankhan (born 1958 in Abadan) is an Iranian linguist and professor and chair of the department 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 University of Texas at Arlington (1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from University of Tehran. He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.