This session explores career opportunities for computer science students. A number of accomplished professionals will talk about their career paths and together with AUA students will explore opportunities that lie ahead.
Rouben Meschian, a former member of the Advanced Technologies team at IBM, is a founding software engineer at Cambridge Semantics where he is the lead developer of Anzo on the Web, a fully customizable web application that allows end users to create dashboards to view and edit linked data.
Vaagn Toukharian is the Principal Engineer for Qualys's Web Application Scanner. Was involved with security industry since 1999. Experience includes work on Certification Authority systems, encryption devices, large CAD systems, Web scanners. Currently he’s the Armenian Chapter Leader at OWASP.
Artashes Vardanyan is the director of Microsoft Innovation Center. Coming from the dynamic startup world Artashes brought fresh thinking and his hands-on experience in transforming innovative ideas into products. Being startup acceleration manager his aim is to connect startups with mentors and investors and share his experience with others.
Vahagn Poghosyan started his career in high-tech in 1999 Silicon Valley-based EDA startup. In 2003 he received his PhD degree in the field of applied mathematics. Since 2007 Vahagn co-founded multiple initiatives targeting improvement of education, with primary focus on IT and Robotics. Vahagn is the co-founder and CTO at Instigate Design CJSC since 2005.
Organizer: AUA College of Science and Engineering
Email: info@aua.am
Venue: Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall
Phone: +374 60 69-40-40
