David Yang (entrepreneur)

Davíd Yang
Founder and Director of the Board of ABBYY, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics.
Born	June 3rd, 1968 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union, Russian Federation
Occupation	Chairman, ABBYY
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Davíd Yang (David Yan) (Armenian: Դավիթ Յան, Russian: Дави́д Ян, Chinese: 楊誠), born 1968, is an Armenian-born Russian, founder and director of the board of ABBYY, Ph.D. in Memeology, and Laureate of Russian Government Award in Science and Technology.

David Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenia, to a Chinese father from Shanghai 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 Department 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

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.