Albert N. Shiryaev#
| Membership Number: | 865 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1996 Head of the Probability Theory Department of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University
- 1986 - 2002 Head of the Laboratory "Statistics of Stochastic Processes" of the Steklov Mathematical Institute
- Since 1970 Professor of the Moscow State University
- 1967 Dissertation for degree of Doctor of Phys.-Math. Sci. "Studies in the sequential statistical analysis". Official opponents: A. N. Kolmogorov, A. V. Skorokhod, and I. A. Ibragimov
- 1961 Candidate (Ph. D.) dissertation "Optimal methods on quickest detection problems". Scientific advisor A. N. Kolmogorov
- Since 1957 Member of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1952 - 1957 Student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University
Fields of Scholarship
- Probability theory
- Statistics and financial mathematics
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Distinguished Professor of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
- 2002 Professor Honoris Causa of Amsterdam University
- 2000 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa of Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- 1997 Correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), Bernoulli Society (BS), Moscow Mathematical Society (MMS)
- 1996 Humboldt Research Award
- 1994 Man of the Year 1994 (by the American Biographical Institute)
- 1994 Kolmogorov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europea
- 1985 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
- 1974 Markov Prize of Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1974)
