Ilya Segalovich is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Yandex. Prior to co-founding Yandex, Ilya led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International from 1993-2000. He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arcadia company, where he headed that company’s software team. IIya helped create the National Corpus of Russian Language (Ruscorpora) and ROMIP, the Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar. Ilya has a degree in geophysics from S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute and together with his wife Maria, supports the Maria’s Children Arts & Rehabilitation Center for orphans and disadvantaged children.
