Boris Mirkin#
| Membership Number: | 4553 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.hse.ru/en/staff/bmirkin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RF
- 2000 - 2010 Professor, Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck University of London, UK, now Emeritus Professor
- 1997 - 1999 Visiting Professor, National Center for Cancer Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1993 - 1997 Visiting Research Fellow, DIMACS, Rutgers University of New Jersey, USA
- 1992 - 1993 Consultant, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France
- 1982 - 1992 Leading Research Fellow, Central Economics Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RF
Fields of Scholarship
- Data analysis
- Unstructured text analysis
- Mathematical modelling in decision making
- Cluster analysis
- Evolutionary reconstructions in Genomics
- Data structures
Honours and Awards
- 2012 National Research University Higher School of Economics "Golden Tower" Award for "Best Research" together with a prize of 300,000 rubles ($10,000 at that time)
- Fellow of both British Computer Society and Royal Engineering Academy from about 2002 to 2009
- Status of Professor Emeritus of the University of London was an award by the Board of the University of London 2010
- Considered as having an award status, extensive paid visits to DIMACS, Rutgers University (1992-1998), and Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg (1996-1999)
- Best Teacher awards at HSE, 2011, 2013
