Vyacheslav Kalashnikov

Vyacheslav Vitalievich Kalashnikov (born November 6, 1955) is a Russian mathematics professor and researcher currently working at the Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus in Mexico. His work has been recognized by awards from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is also a Level III member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Biography He was born in Vladivostok, Russia and is married to mathematician Nataliya Kalashnykova. They have one daughter.

Kalashnikov obtained his bachelors and masters in mathematics from the Novosibirsk State University in Novosibirsk, Siberia. He went on to obtain his doctorate here and at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in mathematical cybernetics .

Kalashnikov’s main research specialty is optimization, especially in complementarity and unequal variables. In 2002 he published the book “Complementarity, Equilibrium, Efficiency and Economics” in London. In addition he has authored or co-authored eight book chapters and published twenty five journal articles. He has presented his work in conferences in Mexico and abroad. He also appears in the seventh edition of Five Hundred Leaders of Influence. He is a member of the Russian Association of Mathematical Programming, the American Mathematical Society and the Mexican Mathematical Society.