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

Dedication of the International Workshop on Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2024

Dedication of the International Workshop on Multiobjective and Bilevel Optimization, Shezhen, China, March 2024

Dedication of the 3rd International Conference on Variational Analysis and Optimization, Santiago, Chile, January 2024

Dedication of the special issue of JOTA on Variational Analysis in Optimization, Control and Applications,  203 (2024), issue  2

Best Paper Award, Journal of Global Optimization, 2023

Dedication of the International Conference on Variational Analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization, Hong Kong, December 2023

Principal Lecturer at the International School-Seminar on Nonlinear Analysis and Extremal Problems, Irkursk, Russia, July 2022

Principal Lecturer at the International Forum on Developments and Origins of Operations Research, Shenzhen, China, November 2021

Foreign Member, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, elected in May 2021

Distinguished Lecture Award from the Universities of Hong Kong and  the HK Chapter of SIAM, March 2021

Featured Review on the book “Variational Analysis and Applications,” SIAM Review 62 (2020)

Dedication of the special issue of Optimization on  Nonsmooth and Variational Analysis 69 (2020), Nos. 7-8

Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 2019

Dedication of the special issue of Pure and Applied Functional Analysis on Control, Optimization and Variational Analysis, Vol. 4 (2019), Nos. 1 and 2

Certificate of Appreciation, Georg Cantor Society, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 2018

Dedication of the special issue of Revista Investigacion Operacional on Variational Analysis and Optimization, Vol. 39, 2018

Certificate of Appreciation, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 2018

Dedication of International Workshop on Variational Analysis and Related Topics, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2018

Invited Lecture Course, International Research Training Group, Munich-Graz, 2018

Dedication of International Conference on Variational Analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization, Halle, Germany, 2018

Dedication of the Special Session on Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications of the AMS Western Sectional Meeting, Portland, OR, 2018

The Fisk Distinguished Lecture Award, University of Wyoming, 2018

Corresponding Member, Accademia Peloritana deii, Italy, elected in 2016

Dedication of the special issue of Applicable Analysis on Variational Analysis, Optimization and Optimal Control, 94 (2015), No. 1

Recognition in the list of 10 top papers in Optimization for 2014, Taylor & Francis

Special Lecture Series Award, Center for Mathematical Research at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, 2014

Doctor Honoris Causa, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 2014

Dedication of the International Workshop on Variational Analysis and Approximation Theory, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014

Dedication of the special issue of Vietnam J. Mathematics  42 (2014), No. 4

Editor Award for the best paper, Kybernetika, 2014

Highly Cited Researcher, Thompson Reuters, 2013

Doctor Honoris Causa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013

Fellow of the Inaugural Class, American Mathematical Society, named in 2012

Chair of the International Working Group on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity for 2012-2015

Honorary Professor, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China, 2012

Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, named in 2011

Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Messina, Italy, 2011

Dedication of the International Workshop on Variational Analysis in Optimization and Equilibria, Messina, Italy, June 2011

Advisory Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, 2011

Two among eight most cited papers in Mathematical Programming for 2009-2010

Dedication of the book Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation with Applications to Optimization and Control, Springer Series on Optimization and Applications, Vol. 47, Springer, New York, 2010

Doctor Honoris Causa, Alicante University, Alicante, Spain, 2009

Distinguished Lecture Award, Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences and University of Victoria, Canada, September 2009

Dedication of the special issue on Variational Analysis and Optimization, Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 13, No. 6A, 2009

Dedication of the special issue on Mathematical Control Theory of the International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 2009

Distinguished University Professor, Wayne State University, named in 2008

Distinguished Lecture Award, The University of Texas-Pan American, 2008

Honorary Medal of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, Czech Republic, 2008

Dedication of the special issue of Set-Valued Analysis on Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation, 16, No. 2-3, 2008

Doctor Honoris Causa, Vasile Goldis University, Romania, 2008

Dedication of the special clusters on Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation and on on Mathematical Control Theory, International Conference Controlo2008, Vila Real, Portugal, July 2008

Dedication (among others) of the International Conference “50 Years of Optimal Control,” Bedlewo, Poland, September 2008

Dedication of the special clusters on Variational Analysis and Applications and Midwest Optimization Seminar at the AMS Fall Central Meeting, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 2008

Dedication of the International Symposium on Variational Analysis and Optimization, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 2008

Doctor Honoris Causa, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, 2007

Certificate of Significant Contribution, Georgian National Science Foundation, 2007

Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 2007

Distinguished Award in Operational Research, Indian National Science Academy, 2007

Best Paper Award,Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, 2007

Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Wayne State University, 2006

Certificate of Highest Merit, International University, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam, 2006

Lifetime Scholar of the Academy of Scholars, Wayne State University, elected in 2004

Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Wayne State University, 2004

Excellence in Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2004

Best Paper Award, Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, 2003

Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1999

Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 1998

Career Development Chair Award, Wayne State University, 1992