 Yaroslavtsev completed his PhD in computer science in three years in 2013 at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Sofya Raskhodnikova.His dissertation was titled "Efficient Combinatorial Techniques in Sparsification, Summarization and Testing of Large Datasets".After an ICERM institute postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, he joined the University of Pennsylvania in the first cohort of fellows at the Warren Center for Network and Data Science, founded by Michael Kearns.