Draft:David Yang (entrepreneur)

David Yang (David Yan) (Դավիթ Յան, Дави́д Ян, ; born June 2, 1968, in Armenia) is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on Artificial intelligence, founder of 12 companies, including ABBYY, Morfeus.ai, Yva, and others. A member of the Band of Angels.

Early life and education
David Yang was born on June 2, 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 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He graduated from its Department of General and Applied Physics in 1992, with a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics.

Career
In 1989, as a four-year student of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Yang founded his first company, Bit Software. His partner was Alexander Moskalev, a member of the Institute of Microelectronics Technology of Russian Academy of Science. In 1998 the company was renamed ABBYY.

ABBYY is an international company developing technologies in the fields of optical character recognition, intelligent character recognition, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

In 2016 Yang founded Santa Clara, CA based Yva.ai - a real-time predictive analytics platform which provides insights that improve retention rate and business performance.

Other projects

 * Development of Cybiko – pocket communication computer for youngsters
 * Participation in ATAPY Software company 2001
 * Foundation and participation in iiko, a developer of hospitality services management software, 2005
 * Participation in creative projects, such as FAQ-Café studio, 2004), restaurant, club, and gallery ArteFAQ, 2007; art-club “Squat” 2009; club “The Sisters Grimm”
 * Co-founder of Ayb Educational Foundation
 * Participation in Supervisory Council of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, educational center Tumo (2006), Board of Trustees of Re-apaga Charity Foundation (re-apaga.am),
 * Advisory for Impulse Armenia - the Caucasus’ first e-waste, aluminium, and plastic dismantling and recycling facility.