As of 2007[update] Shiryaev holds a 20% permanent professorial position at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

[1] In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker with talk Sur les equations stochastiques aux dérivées partielles at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Nice.

In 1978 he was a Plenary Speaker with talk Absolute Continuity and Singularity of Probability Measures in Functional Spaces at the ICM in Helsinki.

[1] In 2017 he was awarded the Chebyschev gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[4] His scientific work concerns different aspects of probability theory, statistics and its applications.