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

  • 574. (with P. Tang and C. Wang), Complete characterizations of well-posedness in parametric composite optimization, submitted (2025); arxiv:2512.14124

  • 573. (with G. C. Bento, J. X. Cruz Neto, J. O. Lopes, and P. R. Silva Filho),  Regularized multiobjective optimization\\ with directionally Lipschitzian data, submitted (2025); arXiv:2511.16336

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
  • International Workshop on Optimization, Variational Analysis and Control Theory,  Hanoi,  Vietnam,  October 2026

  • International Conference on Optimization and Machine Learning, Taipei, Taiwan, 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