David Yang
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| Born | 1968 Yerevan, Armenia |
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| Occupation | Chairman, ABBYY |
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David Yang (Armenian: Դավիդ Յան, Russian: Давид Ян), born 1968, is the ABBYY Software House founder and Board Chairman, as well as the Cybiko, Inc. founder.
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[edit] Early life
David Yang is born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenia, 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.
[edit] Projects
- In 1989, while still a student, Yang founded his first company, ABBYY Software House, which today is the leading developer of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It has offices in 6 countries and sells its products in more than 80 countries.
- In 1998, again using Russian developers and investors, Yang founded Cybiko, Inc. with an idea to develop peer-to-peer (P2P) RF networking technologies for mobile hand-held devices which would allow them to communicate, share data and have access to external resources.
[edit] Publicity
David Yang is among the world’s leading high technology entrepreneurs and an author of many patents and scientific publications. His profile is included in the “Who is Who 2001” U.S. directory. In 2001-2002, the World Economic Forum in Davos named Yang among the 100 “World Technology Pioneers”. He has been ranked among the top 20 technology professionals by computer industry magazines within the Russian Federation.
[edit] References
- Bio on ABYYY website
- Bio on Armeniapedia, the online Armenia Encyclopedia
- “The Master of the Game” on Time Europe website
- Marquis Who's Who on the Web
