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

579. XV Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization, IFORS News, 2026; https://www.ifors.org/category/newsletter/


578. (with G. C. Bento, T. S. Mota and A. Soubeyran),  Convergence rates for the alternating minimization algorithm in structured nonsmooth
and nonconvex optimization, submitted (2026); arXiv:2601.22850.


577. (with P. P. Tang and C. J. Wang), Complete characterizations of well-posedness in parametric composite optimization, to appear in Optimization (2026); arXiv:2512.14124.

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

The 13th Asian Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Optimization (plenary talk), Bangkok, Thailand, March 2027


International Workshop on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Haifa, Israel, October 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