Office: 1237 Faculty/Administration Bldg
Work Phone: (313) 577-2479
Home Phone: (734) 580-2048
Cell Phone: (734) 355-9620
Publications
  • 556. (with G. Bento, T. Mota and Yu. Nesterov), Convergence of descent optimization algorithms under Polyak-Lojasiewicz-Kurdyka conditions, submitted (2025).

  • 555. Variational analysis of controlled sweeping processes,  Sib. Math. J.  66 (2025), No. 2.

  • 554. (with M. Chao, Z. Shi and J. Zhang),  Newtonian methods with Wolfe linesearch in nonsmooth optimization and machine learning, submitted (2025); https://optimization-online.org/?p=29250.

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
  • 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

  • Dedication of the International Conference on Optimization: Challenges and Applications, Alicante, Spain, May 2024

Talks
  • Midwest Optimization Meeting, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October-November 2025

  • Franco-Chilean Workshop on Optimization, Rouen, France, July 2025

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