David Yang: to achieve success, Armenia needs skilled specialists

PanARMENIAN.Net - To achieve success, Armenia needs skilled specialists with fundamental and modern education, according to ABBYY founder and chairman David Yang.



"Electronic dictionaries are main products now and Armenia possesses the potential to develop the field. Armenia, like other small countries which worked economical miracle, can attract funds," he said during a meeting in Yerevan State University.



David Yang born 1968, Founder and Chairman of the Board of ABBYY, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Laureate of Russian Government Award in Science and Technology. David Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 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.



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 May 2009). 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.