Ilya Segalovich is a co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been CTO and director of Yandex since 2000. Ilya proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.
He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arkadia Company that has been founded by his schoolmate Arkady Volozh. Segalovich headed Arkadia’s software team. From 1993 to 2000, Ilya Segalovich led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International. He left CompTek for Yandex in 2000.
Segalovich is a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute.
