Akita International University
Global Connectivity Program
Office: A 3-5
email: eyanchenko [at] aiu [dot] ac [dot] jp

Welcome to my webpage! My name is Eric Yanchenko and I am an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of AI and Data Science in the Global Connectivity Program at Akita International University in Akita, Japan. In 2023, I completed my PhD in statistics at North Carolina State University where I was advised by Brian Reich and Srijan Sengupta. Previously, I was on a pre-doctoral JSPS short-term fellowship at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan working with Petter Holme and Tsuyoshi Murata.

My current research interests are in:

• Networks
  • Hypothesis testing for meso-scale structures
  • Core-periphery structure
  • Influence maximization
• Bayesian inference
  • Priors for scale parameters in hierarchical models
  • Bayesian Optimization​​

Research Links:
CV, Google Scholar

If you are a PhD student or recent PhD graduate and are interested in spending one-year in Japan doing research, please contact me.

News:
5/25 - My work on Bayesian Optimization and influence maximization has been accepted at Technometrics!
5/25 - My work on graph sub-sampling in divide-and-conquer algorithms has been published in Statistics and Computing!
2/25 - In my latest work, I adapt the R2D2 prior framework for ordinal regression. Check it out here!
12/24 - Check out our latest extension of the R2D2 prior to the grouped-regression setting.
8/24 - I received a KAKENHI start-up grant from JSPS!