Elena Bunina
Russian and Israeli mathematician businesswoman (born 1976
Elena Igorevna Bunina (Russian: Елена Игоревна Бунина; born 12 May 1976) is a Russian and Israeli mathematician and businesswoman. She was the CEO of Yandex from 2017 to 2022. Following her resignation, she immigrated to Israel following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
As of 2022, she is a professor in the mathematics department of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and a scientific advisor at the Y-Data school of data science in Israel.
Early life and education
Elena Igorevna Bunina was born May 12, 1976, in Moscow, Soviet Russia, and is of Jewish background. Her father Igor Bunin was a historian.
Bunina finished Moscow State School 57, where she later taught mathematical analysis. Bunina graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Moscow State University in 1998.
Scientific career
At the Department of Higher Algebra at Moscow State University, under the guidance of Professor Alexander Vasilyevich Mikhalev, she defended her PhD thesis for the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on the topic "Elementary equivalence of linear and algebraic groups".
In 2001 she began teaching programming at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, since 2005 she has worked at the Department of Higher Algebra of Moscow State University, where she taught algebra until 2022.
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