| Susanna Mkrtchyan | |
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| Birth Date: | 26 August 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Yerevan, Armenian SRR, Soviet Union |
| Awards: | Wikimedian of the Year – Honorable mention (2015) |
Susanna Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Սուսաննա Մկրտչյան, pronounced as /hy/; born 26 August 1949) is an Armenian professor of database and system research Wikimedian.[1] She founded and leads the Wikimedia Armenia chapter, which organizes outreach and workshops to improve the Armenian Wikipedia,[2] including an annual conference.[3] [4]
During Wikimania 2015, she received an honourable mention in the context of the annual award Wikimedian of the Year attributed by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.[5] [6]
Susanna Mkrtchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union. She studied at Avetik Isahakyan School in Yerevan, and later attended the Manuk Abeghyan School with a focus on physics, graduating with honors.
During 1966–1971, she studied computing at the mathematics faculty of Yerevan State University. In 1984, she joined the System Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, helping to develop the "INES" database management system. Since 2010, she has worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems.