Alexandra Elbakyan

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Alexandra Elbakyan
Alexandra Elbakyan
Elbakyan in 2010
Born 1988[1]
Kazakhstan[1]
Known for Creating Sci-hub

Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Александра Асановна Элбакян[2]) is a Kazakhstani graduate student,[3] computer programmer and the creator of the site Sci-Hub.[4] The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden for leaking information and because she avoids American law by residing in Russia.[5] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz.[6]

Biography

Elbakyan was born in Kazakhstan in 1988. She says she has "Armenian, Slavic and Asian roots".[7] Elbakyan undertook university studies in Astana, where she developed skills in computer hacking. A year working in computer security in Moscow gave her the money to proceed to Freiburg in 2010 to work on a brain-computer interface project, and she developed an interest in transhumanism, which led her to a summer internship at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US. She began Sci-Hub on her return to Kazakhstan in 2011, characterised by Science as 'an awe-inspiring act of altruism or a massive criminal enterprise, depending on whom you ask'.[1] Following a lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan is presently in hiding due to the risk of extradition.[8] According to a 2016 interview, her neuroscience research is on hold, but she has enrolled in a history of science master’s program at a “small private university” in an undisclosed location. Appropriately enough, her thesis focuses on scientific communication.[1]

See also

References

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  2. https://runet-id.com/103103/
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