Ilya Vartanian · CC BY-SA 4.0

An algebraist who combined university research and teaching with leadership at Yandex, serving as general director of its Russian business and helping develop its School of Data Analysis. After leaving Russia in 2022, she continued her mathematical work at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and advised the Y-Data school of data science. Her career spans abstract mathematics, training future researchers, and managing a major technology organization.