
A declined credit card sent a Georgia Tech researcher hunting for truth in the noise. Fifteen years later, his old question - who is really speaking? - has become the defining riddle of synthetic media.
Milind Borkar is the founder and CEO of Illuma, a Plano, Texas company that uses passive voice biometrics and synthetic-voice detection to authenticate callers and stop phone-channel fraud at credit unions and community banks. He holds a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech, is named on 21 patents, and spent a decade at Texas Instruments launching more than 50 products before founding Illuma in 2016.