Office: 1237 Faculty/Administration Bldg
Work Phone: (313) 577-2479
Home Phone: (734) 580-2048
Cell Phone: (734) 355-9620
Publications
  • 577. (with P.  D. Khanh,  V.  V. H. Khoa, D. B. Tran and N. V. Vo, Inexact DC. algorithm in Hilbert spaces with applications to PDE-constrained optimization, submitted (2026).

  • 576. (with S. Kazemdehbashi  and Y. Liu), New location science models with applications to UAV-based disaster relief, submitted (2026),  https://optimization-online.org/?p=33016.

  • 575. (with X. Qin and J.-C. Yao), Preface to the SI   “Recent Trends on Numerical Optimization and Their Applications,” dedicated to Y. Nesterov,  J. Nonlinear Var. Anal. 10 (2026), No. 2,  pp. 199-200. 

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

  • The First China-Korea International Conference on Mathematical Optimization, Algorithm and Applications. Kunming, China, July 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