Alexander Belenky
- Leading Research Fellow:International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis
- Professor:Faculty of Economic Sciences / Department of Mathematics
- Tenured Professor (2011)
- Alexander Belenky has been at HSE University since 2009.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
- 1997Professor
- 1995
Doctor of Sciences* in Application of Computers, Mathematical Modelling, and Mathematical Methods in Research
RAS Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences - 1981
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in System Analysis, Management and Information Processing
- 1974
Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Courses (2023/2024)
- Public Management Decision-making (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Systems Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Predictive Modelling (Master’s programme; Graduate School of Business; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Public Management Decision-making (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Quantitative Analysis in Procurement and Public–Private Partnership (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Systems Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2021/2022)
- Public Management Decision-making (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Quantitative Analysis in Procurement and Public–Private Partnership (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Public Management Decision-making (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Public Management Decision-making (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Quantitative Analysis in Procurement and Public–Private Partnership (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Mathematical and Computational Engineering in Science and Business" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 3 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Systems Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Methods of Decision-Making (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Public Management Decision-making (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Quantitative Analysis in Procurement and Public–Private Partnership (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Applied Problems of Decision Making 2" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Systems Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
Other publications46
- Article Belenky A., Fedin G., Kornhauser A. An Approach to Estimating the Economic Expediency of Developing a New Cargo Transport Hub by a Regional Public Administration // International Journal of Public Administration. 2021. Vol. 44. No. 13. P. 1076-1089. doi
- Article Belenky A., Fedin G., Kornhauser A. Kornhauser An Approach to Estimating the Economic Expediency of Developing a New Cargo Transport Hub by a Regional Public Administration // International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age. 2021. Vol. 44. No. 13. P. 1076-1089. doi
- Article Belenky A. S., Fedin G. G., Kornhauser A. L. Estimating the Needed Volume of Investment in a Public–Private Partnership to Develop a Regional Energy/Freight Transportation Infrastructure // International Journal of Public Administration. 2019. No. 42. P. 1275-1310. doi
- Article Belenky A. S., Kornhauser A. L. Estimating the needed volume of investment in developing a chain of charging stations for electric vehicles along a highway // International Journal of Public Administration. 2019. No. 42. P. 1256-1274. doi
- Article Belenky A. S., Farazmand A., Vasin A. A. The Management of Large Scale Energy Projects: Opportunities and Challenges An Introduction to the Special Issue // International Journal of Public Administration. 2019. No. 42. P. 1251-1255. doi
- Article Alexander S. Belenky, Bolkunov D. S. An equilibrium analysis of investment opportunities in a regional electrical grid // Energy Systems. 2016. Vol. 7. No. 4. P. 663-698. doi
- Article Belenky A., Bolkunov D. S. Estimating the Expediency of Investing in the Development of a Regional Electrical Grid // Procedia Computer Science. 2016. Vol. 91. P. 866-872. doi
- Chapter Belenky A., Egorova L. G. Optimization of Portfolio Compositions for Small and Medium Price-Taking Traders, in: Optimization and Its Applications in Control and Data Sciences: In Honor of Boris T. Polyak’s 80th Birthday (Springer Optimization and Its Applications) / 1st ed.. Book 115. Springer, 2016. P. 51-117. doi
- Article Belenky A., Larson R. C., Roginskiy L. A. Storing Electricity in a Country's Electrical Grid as a Key Energy Problem of the 21st Century // Procedia Computer Science. 2016. Vol. 91. P. 873-881. doi
- Preprint Belenky A., Egorova L. G. Two approaches to modeling the interaction of small and medium price-taking traders with a stock exchange by mathematical programming techniques / Издательский дом ВШЭ. Series WP7 "Математические методы анализа решений в экономике, бизнесе и политике". 2016. No. 02.
- Book Alexander S. Belenky. Who Will Be the Next President?: A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Election System (Springerbriefs in Law) 2nd ed.. Germany: Springer, 2016. doi
- Article Belenky A. A game-theoretic approach to optimizing the scale of incorporating renewable sources of energy and electricity storing systems in a regional electrical grid // Energy Systems. 2015. Vol. 6. No. 3. P. 389-415. doi
- Chapter Belenky A., Egorova L. G. An Approach to Forming and Managing a Portfolio of Financial Securities by Small and Medium Price-Taking Traders in a Stock Exchange, in: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Issue 359: Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences. Switzerland : Springer, 2015. P. 257-268.
- Article Alexander S. Belenky. Finding an optimal strategy of incorporating renewable sources of energy and electricity storing systems in a regional electrical grid // Energy Systems. 2015. Vol. 6. No. 2. P. 291-308. doi
- Preprint Belenky A., Egorova L. G. Две модели принятия решений участником торгов на фондовой бирже по формированию и изменению своего инвестиционного портфеля / Издательский дом ВШЭ. Series WP7 "Математические методы анализа решений в экономике, бизнесе и политике". 2015. No. WP7/2015/02 .
- Article Беленький А. С., Болкунов Д. С. Теоретико-игровой подход к анализу перспектив развития системы электроснабжения региона // Управление большими системами: сборник трудов. 2015. № 57. С. 76-122.
- Article Belenky A. Finding Optimal Production and Selling Strategies for an Electricity Generator in a Part of a Country’s Electrical Grid // Procedia Computer Science. 2014. Vol. 31. P. 1150-1159. doi
- Chapter Belenky A., Yunusova A. Games with connected player strategies for analyzing the competitiveness of railroad company in a cargo transportation marketplace, in: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Science and Cloud Computing Companion, December 7-8, 2013, Guangzhou, China, IEEE Computer Society, 2014. Los Alamitos, Washington, Tokyo : IEEE Computer Society, 2014. P. 194-200.
- Chapter Belenky A. Two Classes of Games on Polyhedral Sets in Systems Economic Studies,, in: Network Models in Economics and Finance. Springer, 2014. P. 35-80.
- Article Belenky A. Three Quantitative Management Problems in Public Procurement and Decision Procedures for Their Analysis and Solving // Procedia Computer Science. 2013. Vol. 17. P. 1142-1153. doi
- Book Belenky A. Who Will Be the Next President?: A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Election System. L., NY, Dordrecht, Heidelberg : Springer, 2013.
- Article Belenky A. A Boolean programming problem of choosing an optimal portfolio of projects and optimal schedules for them by reinvesting within the portfolio the profit from project implementation // Applied Mathematics Letters. 2012. Vol. 25. No. 10. P. 1279-1284. doi
- Book Belenky A. Understanding the Fundamentals of the U.S. Presidential Election System. L., NY, Dordrecht, Heidelberg : Springer, 2012.
- Article Беленький А. С., Кузнецова И. В., Чубарова А. В., Шамрин А. Т. Формирование и оптимизация структуры портфеля государственных заказов в условиях ограниченного бюджета методами математического программирования // Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2012. Т. 10. № 1. С. 88-104.
- Article Беленький А. С., Резер С. М., Юнусова А. И. Отечественный и зарубежный опыт формирования тарифной политики на железнодорожные грузовые перевозки // Транспорт: наука, техника, управление. 2011. № 4. С. 3-11.
- Article Беленький А. С., Юнусова А. И. Теоретико-игровой подход к проблеме регулирования тарифов на транзитные контейнерные перевозки на железнодорожном транспорте России // Транспорт: наука, техника, управление. 2011. № 6. С. 3-8.
- Book Belenky A. Operations Research in Transportation Systems: Ideas and Schemes of Optimization Methods for Strategic Planning and Operations Management. L., NY : Springer, 2010.
- Chapter Беленький А. С. О размещении заказов посредством одношаговых аукционов // В кн.: X Международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: В 3 кн. / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 1. М. : Издательский дом ГУ-ВШЭ, 2010. С. 428-440.
- Article Belenky A. A Rule forDetermining the Winner in Sealed Ceiling Bids and Its Mathematical Properties // HSE Economic Journal. 2009. No. 1. P. 3-18.
- Article Беленький А. С. О выборе правил проведения одношаговых аукционов в рамках закона 94-ФЗ // Госзаказ: управление, размещение, обеспечение. 2009. № 3. С. 2-11.
- Article Беленький А. С. Об одном правиле определения победителя в закрытых тендерах и его математических свойствах // Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2009. Т. 13. № 1. С. 3-18.
- Article Belenky A. A 0-1 knapsack model for evaluating the possible Electoral College performance in two-party US presidential elections // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2008. Vol. 48. P. 665-676.
- Article Belenky A. A modified ‘‘winner-take-all’’ rule for awarding state electoral votes in US presidential elections and a game model for its analysis // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2008. Vol. 48. P. 1308-1325.
- Book Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications / Ed. by A. Belenky. L., NY : Elsevier, 2008.
- Article Belenky A. Systems studies of voting systems and elections // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2008. Vol. . No. 48. P. 1295-1297.
- Chapter Belenky A. Systems studies of voting systems and elections, in: Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications / Ed. by A. Belenky. L., NY : Elsevier, 2008. P. 1295-1297.
- Article Belenky A. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Proposals to Introduce the Nationwide Popular Vote in U.S. Presidential Elections // Michigan Law Review. 2008. Vol. 106. P. 110-116.
- Article Belenky A., King D. A mathematical model for estimating the potential margin of state undecided voters for a candidate in a US Federal election // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2007. Vol. 45. No. 5-6. P. 585-593. doi
- Article Belenky A. Estimating the size of the calling population in finite source election queues by bilinear programming techniques // Mathematical and Computer Modeling. 2007. Vol. 45. P. 873-882.
- Article Belenky A. Finding the exact lower estimate of the maximin of a minimum function on a polyhedron of connected variables // Applied Mathematics Letters. 2007. Vol. 20. No. 7. P. 795-799. doi
- Article Belenky A. The continuity of two function associated with a maximin problem with connected variables // Applied Mathematics Letters. 2007. Vol. 20. No. 7. P. 773-777. doi
- Article Belenky A. Two rules of a sealed ceiling bid and their analysis by mathematical programming techniques // Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 2006. Vol. 52. P. 1711-1732.
- Article Belenky A. Calculating the minimal fraction of thepopular vote to win the U.S. Presidency in the electoral college // Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 2005. Vol. 50. No. 5-6. P. 783-802. doi
- Article Belenky A. Calculating the minimal number of homogeneous objects to represent a plurality in a heterogeneous system of objects // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2004. Vol. 39. No. 2-3. P. 119-121. doi
- Article Belenky A. The solvability of a set partitioning problem and a logical mistake in Article 2 of the US Constitution // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2004. Vol. 40. P. 1-3.
- Article Belenky A. Two noncooperative games between a coalition and its surrounding in a class of n-person games with constant sum // Applied Mathematics Letters. 2003. Vol. 16. P. 683-687.
Opinion pieces in the media
1. Alexander S. Belenky, The 2004 Election: Incredible Outcomes. Brookline Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 26, p.4; 2004
2. Alexander S. Belenky The 2004 Election: Local polls and Campaign Strategies. Brookline Bulletin, Volume 2. Issue 29, p.4; 2004
3. Alexander S. Belenky The 2004 Election: How It Can Be Won. Brookline Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 35, pp.8,10; 2004
4. Alexander S. Belenky Teaching Mathematics at American Public Schools: What Is Left Behind? Brookline Bulletin, Volume 2, issue 36, pp.4, 8; 2004
5. Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, Faulty system for democracy. Opinions, Boston Herald, February 12, 2007.
6. Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, Voting should not be a heroic act of patience, The Christian Science Monitor, Opinion, September 12, 2006.
7. Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, A call for creating service standards, The Boston Globe, February 20, 2007.
8. Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, Votes are cast. Make sure they’re counted. New York Times, Letters to the Editor, December 13, 2006.
9. Alexander S. Belenky, Belenky: Counting Votes for President, Milford Daily News February 10, 2008
10. Alexander S. Belenky Getting Rid of the Electoral College by Keeping It, Op-Ed News, February `13, 2008
11. Alexander S. Belenky Massachusetts Should Reject the Popular Vote Plan, Telegram&Gazette, February 14, 2008
12. Alexander S. Belenky, Belenky: Avoid electoral crisis by putting the people first, Milford Daily News, April 4, 2008
13. Alexander S. Belenky, Electoral College system benefits Vermont voters, Rutland Herald, April 20, 2008
14. Alexander S. Belenky, Democratic race not over until superdelegates have their say, Telegram&Gazette, June 3, 2008
15. Alexander S. Belenky, U.S. education system gets failing math grade, Times Argus, June 8, 2008
16. Alexander S. Belenky, Should Voters Care About the Rules of Electing a President? Op-Ed News, Sept. 23, 2008
17. Alexander S. Belenky, Belenky: Making Every State a “Battleground” and Every Vote Count, Milford Daily News, October 8, 2008
18. Alexander S. Belenky, Dick Cheney the Next President? Times Argus, November 2, 2008
19. Alexander S. Belenky Return Bay State to election relevancy, The Sun Chronicle. November 19, 2008
20. Alexander S. Belenky Belenky: The Achilles Heel of the popular vote plan, Daily News Tribune, January 30, 2009
21. Alexander S. Belenky Belenky: Challenging the NPV compact, Milford Daily News, February 11, 2009
22. Alexander S. Belenky Belenky: Mistake in math: Leaving analytical thinking behind, MetroWest Daily News, March 24, 2009
23. Alexander S. Belenky: For national vote plan, all states must consent, Buffalo News,April 7, 2009
24. Alexander S. Belenky: Brittle cornerstones of national popular vote plan, Providence Journal, April 11, 2009
25. Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, Voting standards are key to avoiding long lines on Election Day (with Richard C. Larson), Plain Dealer, May 8, 2009
26. Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, The challenge of electric-grid storage, Providence Journal, February 24, 2011
27 Alexander S. Belenky and Richard C. Larson, How to Fix the Electoral College, The Baltimore Sun, November 6, 2012.
Autumn School “Advances in Decision Analysis” was held.
On November 27 to 29, the HSE was held the Autumn School "Successes of decision analysis" with the participation of leading foreign specialists (Yong Shi, Michel Grabish, Ahmet Alkan, Bhavook Bhardwaj, Siddharth Chatterjee, Manfred J. Holler, K. Markström)
HSE and University of London: Joint BA Programme in Applied Data Analysis
In 2018, the Higher School of Economics will launch an English-taught double degree programme in partnership with the University of London in Applied Data Analysis. Graduates will be awarded an undergraduate degree from HSE in Applied Mathematics and Information Science and a Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Business Analytics from the University of London. International applicants are invited to apply online starting November 15, 2017.
Laureates of Golden HSE 2016
On December 20, 2016, the ZIL Cultural Centre hosted this year’s Golden HSE awards ceremony. This year saw several significant changes to the award rules: new nominations have appeared, many of them were divided into categories for different groups of employees — all to help ensure HSE was able to express its gratitude to a larger number of worthy candidates.