Elena Bunina

Elena Bunina was born in 1976 in Moscow

Elena Bunina was born on May 12, 1976, in Moscow to a Jewish family. Her father, Igor Bunin, was a historian.

She finished Moscow State School 57, where she later taught mathematical analysis. She graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University in 1998. She earned a PhD there under Alexander Mikhalev and in 2010 received the degree of Doctor of Sciences.

From 2001 she taught programming at Moscow State University, and from 2005 she taught algebra in its Department of Higher Algebra until 2022. She also headed the Department of Data Analysis at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. She has written or co-written more than 50 papers on algebra and mathematical logic.

In 2007 she joined the Yandex School of Data Analysis and headed its computer science department. At Yandex she led academic programs from 2008 and became HR Director in 2011. She was appointed CEO of Yandex Russia on December 1, 2017.

On April 2, 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she resigned and moved to Israel. She became scientific director of Y-Data and in 2023 a professor of mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. She is married and has 4 children.