Office: 1237 Faculty/Administration Bldg
Work Phone: (313) 577-2479
Home Phone: (734) 580-2048
Cell Phone: (734) 355-9620
Publications
  • 571. (with B.  K. Le and M. Thera), Compact R-continuity with applications to solving inclusions and convergence of algorithms, submitted (2025); arXiv: 2509.01872.

  • 570. (with A, J. Zaslavski), Preface to the Special Issue on Optimization and Control dedicated to Richard Vinter,  Communication in Optimization Theory, 2025.

  • 569. (with S. Kazemdehbashii and  Y. Liu,  A Generalized Sylvester-Fermat-Torricelli problem with application in disaster relief operations by UAVs, submitted (2025), arXiv:2510.15229

Memberships & Editorial

Memberships

  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Fellow, named in 2011)
  • American Mathematical Society (Fellow of the Inaugural Class, named in 2012)
  • Corresponding Member, Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Italy (elected in 2016)
  • Foreign Member, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (elected in 2021)
Research
  • Variational Analysis: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, September 1, 2022—August 31, 2026, National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMS-22045519; Principal Investigator

  • Taming Hard Optimization in Measure Spaces for Modern Applications, January 1, 2025–December 31, 2028, Australian Research Council, Discovery Project No. DP250101112; Principal Foreign Investigator

Honors & Awards
  • Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, INFORMS, 2025

  • Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 2025

  • Inaugural ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar in Mathematical Optimization, 2024

Talks
  • International Conference on Optimization and Machine Learning, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2026

  • The 17th International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Borovets, Bulgaria, July 2026.

Teaching

Schedule

Office Hours: MW 3:00-4:00

Class: MW 4:00-5:20

Seminar: W 1:00-2:00

About Boris

Personal
Born in Moscow, Russia; married with two children, Citizen of the United States

Professional
Rank:
Distinguished University Professor

Ph.D.:
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics: Belarus State Univ. (Minsk, Belarus)

Honorary Degrees
Doctor Honoris Causa (mult.):
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Alicante University, Spain
University of Messina
Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Vasile Goldis University, Romania