FORA.tv Speaker - Ilya Segalovich

Ilya Segalovich is one of Yandex's co-founders and has been Yandex Chief Technology Officer and a director since 2003. He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arcadia Company, where he headed its software team. From 1993 to 2000, he led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International.

Mr. Segalovich received a degree in geophysics from the Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute in 1986 and placed second in the All Soviet Union Math Olympiad in 1981. He also took an active role in starting Russian research and scientific initiatives in information retrieval and computational linguistics.