Andrei Raigorodsky, 35, DSc of Physics and Mathematics, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chair at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, was awarded the prize for breakthroughs in a number of fields in discrete mathematics and their practical application in the field of information technology.
Andrei Raigorodsky is actively engaged in the practical application of the methods he developed in modelling problems in the Internet and other complex networks. His research at Yandex is focused on information retrieval, relevance of the retrieved documents to the search parameters and the structure of spam documents. These results have greatly improved the quality of the Yandex search engine.