Keyvan Mohajer

Keyvan Mohajer (born 1978) is an Iranian-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known for being the founder and CEO of SoundHound.

Life and education

Born in Iran, Mohajer moved to Canada at a young age. [1] He completed his BS at the University of Toronto in 2000 and his MS and PhD at Stanford University in 2005.

Career

He founded a number of dot com ventures including InsuranceHotline.com and Zumo Software. Since 2005, he has been the founder and CEO of SoundHound Inc, an audio and speech recognition company which develops voice-recognition, natural language understanding, sound-recognition and search technologies. Its feature products are Houndify (voice-AI developer platform), Hound (voice-enabled digital assistant), and SoundHound (a music recognition and recommendation company that competes with the likes of Shazam).[2]

gollark: eSIMs are *still hardware devices*. Just programmable ones. Which is... why.
gollark: What do you mean? Should you not have planned this before?
gollark: Take SIM cards. Why are they still discrete hardware devices, *running Java*?
gollark: To be honest the phone network and everything associated with it seems terribly designed.
gollark: And there probably will be, since they can hardly vet all of them thoroughly: there are probably a lot of VoIP providers.

References
  1. http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/One_of_the_Topmost_Technological_Innovations_of_the_World_in_2007.html%5B%5D
  2. "Keyvan Mohajer: President/CEO, Soundhound Inc". Bloomberg.com.
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