(clickable page at
https://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/lnd/research/curv.htm )
Born: Nov. 2, 1948, Ukraine. US Citizen (immigrated 1978).
Wife: Larissa; Kids: Rebecca, Naomi, Andrei.
Areas of Interest:
- Theory of computation; Randomness in computing;
- Algorithmic complexity and intractability;
- Fault-tolerance, Symmetry breaking, Adversarial computations;
- Foundations of Math., Comp.Sci., Probability; Information Theory.
Education:
Affiliations:
- [1980-present] Boston University,
CAS/CS; Professor (promoted from Assoc. Prof. in 1984).
- [2019-present]
The US National Academy of Sciences, Member.
- [2014-present]
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow.
- [1999-present]
University of London. Visiting Professor.
- [2010]
Heidelberg University, Germany. Visiting Professor.
- [2001-2002]
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques; France. Visiting Professor.
- [2001-2002]
Clay Mathematics Institute; Cambridge, MA. CMI Scholar.
- [1993-1994] Guggenheim Foundation; Fellow.
- [1993-1994] Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Visiting Professor.
- [1987] CalTech, Pasadena CA; Visiting Professor.
- [1986] UC Berkeley, CA; Visiting MacKay Professor.
- [1978-1980] MIT, Cambridge, MA; Research positions.
Visiting affiliations thereafter.
- [1973-1977] National Research Institute of Integrated
Automation for the Oil/Gas Industry, Moscow; Senior Research Scientist.
- [1972-1973] National Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Information Transmission, Moscow, USSR; Math. Lab. Assistant;
Research in algorithmic problems of Information Theory.
- [1970-1972] Moscow University, Lab. of Statistical Methods;
Research Scientist; research in Algorithmic Information Theory and
foundations of Probability Theory; supervised a research
seminar jointly with A.N. Kolmogorov.