Background

Anna Nagurney was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Education

Anna Nagurney received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language and Literature in 1977, a Master of Science in 1980, and a Ph.D. in 1983, all from Brown University.

Career

Anna Nagurney devotes her career to education and research that combines operations research / management science, engineering, and economics. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics, critical infrastructure, and in economics and finance.

She was a Distinguished Guest Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and has also held Visiting appointments at MIT (at the Center for Transportation and the Sloan School of Management) and at Brown University and was a Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2005-2006.

Professor Nagurney served on the Advisory Council of the Society for Computational Economics from 2007 until 2010. During March 2008, Professor Nagurney was a Senior Fulbright Specialist in Business Administration at the University of Catania in Italy. In 2008, she was appointed a consultant to the World Bank. The same year, she led the conference, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference and Study Center programs. She was appointed an Instructor in the Office of Executive Education at Harvard University in 2009.

The same year, she was a selected panelist on Traffic at the World Science Festival in New York City and, in 2011, was an invited panelist at the Transportation Research Board meeting and at the AAAS meeting, both of which took place in Washington DC. She was the Chair of the 2011 RSAI Fellow Selection Committee. Professor Nagurney is a participant in the INFORMS Speaker Program and from 2011-2012 was the Chair of the INFORMS Speaker Program.

Also, she was the convener of the symposium Dynamics of Disasters at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. On April 25, 2013, she was a featured panelist on Transport and Traffic at The New York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference with the theme Building Sustainable Cities. She has given plenary and invited talks in Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Argentina, Colombia, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Italy, Canada, New Zealand, the US, and other countries. Professor Nagurney has served on numerous prize and award committees both as a committee member and as Chair.

Nagurney is the editor of the book series, New Dimensions in Networks (Edward Elgar Publishing), and the co-editor of the book series, Advances in Computational Economics (Springer). She is also on the editorial boards of several journals. Her most recent book, Dynamics of Disasters - Algorithmic Approaches and Applications, which she edited with I.S. Kotsireas and P.M. Pardalos, was published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland in 2018. She also co-edited the book, Dynamics of Disasters—Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights, published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland in 2016. She authored Competing on Supply Chain Quality: A Network Economics Perspective, with D. Li, published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland in 2016, and Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products, with M. Yu, A.H. Masoumi, and L.S. Nagurney, published in 2013 by Springer Science + Business Media, NYC.

Achievements

• Anna Nagurney is the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at UMass Amherst. She is an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst.
  
  In 2007, Nagurney received the INFORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research / Management Sciences, known as the WORMS award. In 2016, she received the Volunteer Service Award at the Distinguished Level from INFORMS at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, November 13-16. In 2015 and 2012 she received an Exceptional Merit Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On June 13, 2014, she received the University Medal from the University of Catania in Sicily for her contributions to networks and her mentorship of operations researchers.
  
  In November 2012, she received the Walter Isard Award for her sustained contributions to theory and methodology in Regional Science. She received this award at the 59th Annual Meeting North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International in Ottawa, Canada. In 2012, Professor Nagurney also received the Spotlight Scholar Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was recognized by the Isenberg School of Management with the 2011-2012 Research Excellence Award. In March 2011, she received the Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
  
  Among the additional honors that she has received are the University of Massachusetts Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, INFORMS Moving Spirit Award, a Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Research Team Fellowship, a Distinguished Fulbright Chair at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, two AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Fellowships, the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Massachusetts, an Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, a Faculty Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts, and the Kempe Prize from the University of Umea, Sweden. Her paper with Jose Cruz, International Financial Networks with Intermediation: Modeling, Analysis, and Computations, was awarded the best paper prize for 2004 by the journal Computational Management Science.

Works

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  • Sustainable Transportation Networks

    (This book cogently addresses the question as to whether t...)

    2000
  • Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach

    (Since the publication of the first edition of Network Eco...)

    1993
  • Projected Dynamical Systems and Variational Inequalities with Applications

    (Equilibrium is a concept used in operations research and ...)

    1996
  • Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World

    (A unified treatment of the vulnerabilities that exist in ...)

    2009
  • Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows And Profits

    (This book is the first to bring an economics perspective ...)

    2006
  • Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age

    (The advent of the Information Age has transformed the way...)

    2002
  • Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics

    (Financial analysis is concerned with the study of capital...)

    1997
  • Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks

    (Networks provide the foundation for the functioning of ou...)

    2003
  • Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy Analysis 1999
  • Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products 2013

Membership

Anna Nagurney is a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians, American Mathematical Society, Operations Research Society of America, Institute of Management Science, Regional Science Association, Econometric Society, Society for Computational Economics, New York Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Beta Gamma Sigma.

In 2007, Anna Nagurney was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). In 2013, Professor Nagurney was elected an INFORMS Fellow.

References

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