Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Calabria, Italy (appointed by direct invitation of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in 2002), and Head of the Numerical Calculus Laboratory at the same university. He is Editor-in-Chief of Spinger’s Journal “Operations Research Forum”. He also works part-time as a Professor at Lobachevsky University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, and is an Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. For several decades, he was also an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of High-Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council. He was awarded his Ph.D. (1990) from Lobachevsky Gorky State University and his D.Sc. degree (1996) from Lomonosov State University, Moscow (this degree is Habilitation for the Full Professorship in Russian universities). His research interests include infinity computing and calculus (the field he has founded), global optimization (he was President of the International Society of Global Optimization, 2017–2021), numerical computations, scientific computing, philosophy of computations, foundations of mathematics, set theory, number theory, fractals, parallel computing, and interval analysis. He was awarded several research prizes (International Constantin Carathéodory Prize, International ICNAAM Research Excellence Award, International Prize of the city of Gioacchino da Fiore, all in 2023; Khwarizmi International Award, 2017; Pythagoras International Prize in Mathematics, 2010; EUROPT Fellow, 2016; Outstanding Achievement Award from the 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, USA; Honorary Fellowship, the highest distinction of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 2015; The 2015 Journal of Global Optimization (Springer) Best Paper Award; Lagrange Lecture, Turin University, Italy, 2010 and Distinguished Lectures at Lancaster University, UK, 2020 and at Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, 2024; MAIK Prize for the best scientific monograph published in Russian, Moscow, 2008, etc.). In 2020, he was elected corresponding member of Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti in Messina, Italy. Since 2020, he is included in the ranking “Top 2% highly cited authors in Scopus” produced by Stanford University, the list of top researchers in mathematics produced by Research.com, the list “Top Italian Scientists. Mathematics”, lists of highly cited Russian scientists in mathematics, computer science, and cybernetics, etc. His list of publications contains more than 300 items (among them 6 authored and 12 edited books and more than 130 articles in international journals). He is a member of editorial boards of 12 international and 3 national journals and coeditor of 16 special issues. He delivered more than 100 plenary/keynote lectures and tutorials at prestigious international congresses. He was Chairman of 7 and Co-Chairman of 8 international conferences and a member of Scientific Committees of more than 110 international congresses.