Elena Igorevna Bunina (Russian: Елена Игоревна Бунина; born 12 May 1976) is a Russian-Israeli businesswoman. She was the CEO of Yandex from 2017 to 2022. She resigned her position two weeks early. Following her resignation, she immigrated to Israel following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1] [2] [3]
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.[4] [5]
Elena Igorevna Bunina was born May 12, 1976, in Moscow, Soviet Russia, and is of Jewish background.[6] Her father was a historian.[7]
Bunina finished Moscow State School 57, where she later taught mathematical analysis.[8] [9] [1] Bunina graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Moscow State University in 1998.
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".[10]
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. Also, at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, she was the head of the Department of Data Analysis at the FPMI until 2022.
In 2010 she defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Sciences on the topic "Automorphisms and elementary equivalence of Chevalley groups and other derived structures".
She is the author and co-author of more than 50 scientific articles on elementary properties of algebraic structures and other issues of algebra and mathematical logic. In 2023 he became a professor at the Department of Mathematics at Israel's Bar-Ilan University.
Bunina is married, and has four children.[11] [12]