Bruce M. Boghosian
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Prof. Bruce Michael Boghosian is the sixth president of the American University of Armenia (AUA) in Yerevan, Armenia, having assumed that position in September 2023. He also served as that institution’s third president from 2010 to 2014, during which time he oversaw the creation, accreditation and inauguration of AUA’s undergraduate program – the first American-accredited bachelor program in the former Soviet Union.
Prof. Boghosian is an American mathematician of Armenian ancestry. He has been a professor of mathematics at Tufts University[1] since 2000, and was chair of the mathematics department from 2006 to 2010. He also holds adjunct positions in the Tufts University Departments of Physics and Computer Science.
Boghosian received his bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD from the Department of Applied Science at the University of California, Davis.
From 1978 to 1986, he was a physicist in the Plasma Theory Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
From 1986 through 1994, he was a Senior Scientist in the Mathematical Research Group at Thinking Machines Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From 1994 through 2000, prior to coming to Tufts University, Boghosian held the position of Research Associate Professor at the Center for Computational Science and Department of Physics at Boston University.
From 2010 to 2014, while on leave from Tufts University, Boghosian served as the third president of the American University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia.
Boghosian has held visiting academic positions at the Département de Mathématiques, Paris-Sud University in Orsay, France; the École normale supérieure in Paris; Peking University in Beijing; University College London; the University of California, Berkeley; the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy; the Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
