Yuya Sasaki

Chair, Department of Economics
Brian and Charlotte Grove Chair and Professor of Economics

Yuya Sasaki is the Brian and Charlotte Grove Chair and Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. An econometrician by training, his research spans a broad range of areas, including big data analytics, cluster-robust inference, extreme-event analysis, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, panel data econometrics, program evaluation, quantile regression, and structural estimation.

In recognition of his contributions to econometrics, Sasaki received the Econometric Theory Multa Scripsit Award in 2019, was named a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics in the same year, was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Econometrics in 2023, and received the Econometric Theory Plura Scripsit Award in 2026. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including Econometric Reviews, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and the Journal of Econometric Methods. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Econometric Reviews.