Office: 1237 Faculty/Administration Bldg
Work Phone: (313) 577-2479
Home Phone: (734) 580-2048
Cell Phone: (734) 355-9620
Publications
  • 560. (with P. D. Khanh and D. B. Tran), Convergence of first-order methods with momentum from the prospective of an inexact gradient descent method, submitted (2025)

  • 559. (with Y. Song, S.  Zeng and J. Zhang), Extended SQP methods in nonsmooth difference programming applied to problems with variational  inequality constraints, submitted (2025); arXiv:2504.05609

  • 558. (with M. Jelitte), The least singular value function in variational analysis, submitted (2025); https://optimization-online.org/?p=29704;arXiv:2503.19521

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

  • Inaugural ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar in Mathematical Optimization, 2024

  • Principal Lecturer (5 lectures), International School on Variational Analysis and Applications. National Center for Applied Mathematics, Chongqing, China, July 2024

Talks
  • International Workshop on Variational Analysis and Applications for Modeling of Energy Exchange, Rancaqua, Chile, March 2026

  • XV Brazilian Workshop on Optimization, Blumenau, Brazil,  February 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