Office: 1237 Faculty/Administration Bldg
Work Phone: (313) 577-2479
Home Phone: (734) 580-2048
Cell Phone: (734) 355-9620
Publications

589. Fundamentals of Variational Analysis (around 800 pp.), to appear in Springer, Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, 2027.


588. (with P. Perez-Aros), Proximal random reshuffling with inexact gradients for nonconvex composite optimization; submitted (2026).


587. (with M. Ahookhosh and A. Kabgani), Tensor envelopes in the nonconvex setting: A generic tensor approach; submitted (2026).

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, 2027, 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 Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization: Theory and Applications, Varanasi, India, January 2027


International Workshop on Variational Analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization, Hong, Kong, December 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