Gorban Alexander Nikolaevich

Gorban Alexander Nikolaevich

Alexander Gorban was born on April 19, 1952 in Omsk.

Education

He studied at the Physics and Mathematics School at Novosibirsk State University. In 1972 he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics of the Omsk Pedagogical Institute. In 1980, he became a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.

Biography

1995-2024

In 1995, Gorban took the post of deputy director of the institute and head of the department of computational mathematics of the All-Russian Central Center of the SB RAS. He taught at the Krasnoyarsk State University at the Department of Higher Mathematics, and also concurrently headed the Department of NeuroComputers of the Krasnoyarsk State Technical University. At various times he worked at the Clay Mathematical Institute (USA), the Kurant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (USA), the Institute of Higher Scientific Research (France), the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich and the Isaac Newton Institute (Britain).

2025: Death

On September 21, 2025, at the age of 74, Alexander Gorban, one of the most famous scientists in the field of artificial intelligence in Russia, died. This is stated in the message of the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky (NNSU), where Gorban worked as the chief researcher of the research laboratory of promising methods of data analysis.

Gorban was among the top 100 most cited Russian scientists according to the RSCI. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 scientific papers, including 14 monographs. He was a member of the board of the Russian Association of Neuroinformatics. Under his leadership, a technology for building neural network expert systems was created. At NNSU, he led the megagrant "Scalable networks of AI systems for analyzing data of growing dimension" (2018-2020) and the project "Reliable and logically transparent artificial intelligence: technology, verification and use in socially significant and infectious diseases" (2020-2022).^[1]

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