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Boris Grigorevich Mirkin (Russian: Борис Григорьевич Миркин) is a Russian scientist in data analysis and decision-making methodologies. He was born December 5, 1942. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Saratov State University in Russia (1964) and defended there a “Candidate of Sciences” (equivalent of PhD) degree thesis in Computational Mathematics (1966).
In 1967, B. Mirkin moved to work in the Institute of Economics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. Here he organized a laboratory for mathematical methods in data analysis (1975). He moved further for a position in the Central Economics-Mathematics Institute (Moscow, 1982-1991) where he obtained a Doctor of Technology degree in Systems Analysis (1990). In 1991-2010, B. Mirkin extensively traveled; first, through long-term visiting research positions in France (National Telecommunications School 1991-1992 and International Energy Agency OECD 1992-1993), USA (DIMACS Rutgers University 1993-1997), and Germany (National Center for Cancer Research 1997-1999), and, second, by holding a teaching position of Professor in Computer Science at Birkbeck College University of London UK (2000-2010). From 2010, he moved back to Russia to work as a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Sciences in the Higher School of Economics Moscow.
In the beginning of his career, B. Mirkin worked on mathematical issues in decision theory, mostly extending mathematical results about rankings to less conventional types of preference and indifference relations including interval orders and interval graphs, as well as arbitrary binary relations. Then he moved to focus on issues in cluster analysis advocating the so-called data recovery approach and developing methods akin to the celebrated k-means clustering and modifying them so that the number of clusters and their initial location can be properly determined. B. Mirkin’s methods found applications in social survey processing, analyses of evolutionary history in phylogenetic trees, concept interpretation in taxonomies, etc. In the literature, his name is attached to so-called Mirkin’s prebase in abstract automata theory and Mirkin’s distance between partitions. More references to Mirkin’s work can be found in collection [1] dedicated to his 80th birthday.
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- ^ Goldengorin, Boris, and Sergei Kuznetsov (Eds,). Data Analysis and Optimization. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, 422 p. (URL https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-31654-8.pdf visited 14.08.2024.)