David Yang

David Yang
Davíd Yang
Born 1968
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation Chairman, ABBYY
Website
abbyy.com

Davíd Yang (Armenian: Դավիդ Յան, Russian: Дави́д Ян), born 1968, is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of ABBYY, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Laureate of Russian Government Award in Science and Technology.

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Early life

David Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Soviet Union, to a Chinese father and Armenian mother, both physicists. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before enrolling in the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He graduated the Faculty of General and Applied Physics in 1992, with a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics. He shares similar background with a fellow Armenian, ABBYY vice-president, Director of Data Capture Products Department Aram Pakhchanian, who has known David since Yerevan high school and later graduated from the same Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology [1]

Projects

In 1989, being a four-year student of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), David Yang founded his first company Bit Software together with Alexander Moskalev, a member of the Institute of Microelectronics Technology of Russian Academy of Science. In 1998 the company was renamed to ABBYY.

ABBYY employs leading engineers, scientists, and linguists developing Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), Linguistic and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Today, ABBYY is an international company with over 900 employees worldwide (as of April 2010). ABBYY Group headquarters are located in Moscow with sales and marketing offices in Ukraine, the USA, the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Cyprus and Russia. ABBYY products are being sold in more than 130 countries around the world through an extensive network of regional and international partners.

Among the most famous company products are ABBYY FineReader, an optical character recognition system, and ABBYY Lingvo, an electronic dictionary. The overall number of users of ABBYY products, which range from end user applications for PC and mobile devices to enterprise solutions and development tools, exceeds 30 million people according to internal research.[citation needed]

Alongside with leading ABBYY David is a co-founder, entrepreneur and/or co-investor of a number of other projects.

Among these are:

Publicity

David Yang is the author of a large number of scientific publications and is the holder of many patents. He is ranked among the most famous Russian IT-entrepreneurs. David is interested in modern art, architecture, socio-communicative technologies. He is married and raises two children.

Timeline

1989, June – David Yang gets acquainted with Alexander Moskalev and suggests developing electronic dictionary Lingvo for PCs.

1993 – David Yang graduates from General and Applied Physics Department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The theme of his graduation project is “DSL dictionaries description language”.

2000 – Quarter of the million of Cybiko computers are sold in the USA (4 months after the Cybiko launch).

2001 – David Yang’s profile is included in the “Who Is Who” US directory.

2002 – David is named a “Technology Pioneer” at the World Economic Forum in Davos

2002 – David becomes the laureate of Russian Government Award in Science and Technology

2003 – David Yang defends the dissertation on computer recognition of handwriting and gets Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics.

2004 – FAQ-Cafe Creative Studio is opened.

2005 – Foundation of iiko company.

2006ABBYY products receive 150 awards for unrivaled quality from leading international magazines and test laboratories.

2007 – David Yang participates in the edition of a two-volume illustrated hardcover “Big Anglo-Russian Dictionary ABBYY Lingvo”.

2008 – Iiko company signs the contract in accordance with which all the restaurants “Sbarro” in Russia (over 200 units) are to be automated with iikoRMS и iikoChain technologies.

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