Dr. Yana Volkovich is a Senior Data Scientist and Manager at Xandr (AppNexus), the advertising and analytics division of WarnerMedia Commercial, a unit of AT&T's WarnerMedia. She is leading Identity work streams: supervising projects such as Cross Device Graph, Connected TVs, and Cookieless Advertising solutions.
Before joining Xandr, Yana was a Senior Scientist at Eurecat, one of the largest Technology Centers in Spain. In 2014 she was the visiting Marie Curie Research fellow at Cornell Tech. She received her PhD in Applied Probability from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) and her MSc (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239, ranked the best high school in Russia.
Yana's research interests include Graph theory, Machine/Deep Learning, Computational Social Science, and Heavy-tailed distributions. Dr. Volkovich has served as a senior/program committee member in a number of top scientific conferences (KDD 2020-18, WWW 2021-18, RecSys 2020-18, ic2s2 2020-10, ICWSM 2016-12, AdKDD 2020-18, LocWeb 2021-15, WAW 2020-09) and as a reviewer for scientific journals in the fields of Probability, Computer Science, and Computational Social Science. Her publications could be found on Google Scholar.
Yana speaks 5 languages: Russian, English, Spanish, Dutch, and Catalan.
Before joining Xandr, Yana was a Senior Scientist at Eurecat, one of the largest Technology Centers in Spain. In 2014 she was the visiting Marie Curie Research fellow at Cornell Tech. She received her PhD in Applied Probability from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) and her MSc (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239, ranked the best high school in Russia.
Yana's research interests include Graph theory, Machine/Deep Learning, Computational Social Science, and Heavy-tailed distributions. Dr. Volkovich has served as a senior/program committee member in a number of top scientific conferences (KDD 2020-18, WWW 2021-18, RecSys 2020-18, ic2s2 2020-10, ICWSM 2016-12, AdKDD 2020-18, LocWeb 2021-15, WAW 2020-09) and as a reviewer for scientific journals in the fields of Probability, Computer Science, and Computational Social Science. Her publications could be found on Google Scholar.
Yana speaks 5 languages: Russian, English, Spanish, Dutch, and Catalan.
