Anna Nagurney
Anna Nagurney is a Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in the field of Operations Management. Nagurney holds the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at Amherst.[1] She received a BS in Applied Mathematics, an AB in Russian Language and Literature, an ScM in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, all from Brown University, Providence, RI. Nagurney's Doctoral Advisor at Brown University was Stella Dafermos. Anna has contributed to many different areas of operations research with a focus on network systems from congested urban transportation networks to complex supply chains with applications to food, healthcare, disaster relief, among others. She is the author/co-author of over 195 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters as well as 14 books. She has given keynote talks in many countries, including the US, UK, Colombia, Sweden, France, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, among others. She has supervised the doctoral dissertations of 21 PhDs. She has held visiting faculty appointments at MIT, at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, at SOWI at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University in the UK during the Trinity term in 2016. She also enjoys advancing the research surrounding the Braess paradox.
She is an avid blogger on her blog: RENeW (Research, Education, Networks, and the World).
She is one of the 44 women featured in the book, STEM Gems, by Stephanie Espy.
Honors and Awards
- 1986 - Kempe Prize in honor of Tord Palander, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
- 1988 - NSF Visiting Professorship for Women
- 1989 - Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 1991 - NSF Faculty Award for Women
- 2000 - Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 2002 - Fulbright/University of Innsbruck Distinguished Faculty Chair in Economics, Innsbruck, Austria
- 2005 - Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 2005 - INFORMS Moving Spirit Award for Chapters
- 2005-2006 - Science Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- 2007 - Fellow of the RSAI (Regional Science Association International)
- 2007 - WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Award of INFORMS
- 2008 - Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Business Administration - Italy
- 2013 - Fellow of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)[2]
- 2014 - University Medal awarded by the University of Catania, Italy
- 2016 - INFORMS Volunteer Service Award
- 2019 - Fellow of the Network Science Society[3]
- 2019 - Constantin Caratheodory Prize, International Society of Global Optimization - ISOGO Prizes[4]
- 2020 - Harold Larnder Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society [5]
Publications
- 1996. Projected Dynamical Systems and Variational Inequalities with Applications. With Ding Zhang. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- 1997. Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics. With Stavros Siokos. Springer.
- 1999. Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy Analysis. With Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda, and Padma Ramanujam. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- 1999. Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- 2000. Sustainable Transportation Networks'. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- 2002. Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age. With June Dong. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- 2003. Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks. (Editor). Edward Elgar Publishing.
- 2006. Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows, and Profits. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- 2009. Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World. With Qiang Qiang. Wiley.
- 2013. Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products. With Min Yu, Amir Masoumi and Ladimer Nagurney. Springer Briefs in Optimization.
- 2016. Competing on Supply Chain Quality: A Network Economics Perspective. With Dong Li. Springer.
- 2016. Dynamics of Disasters—Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights. (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas and Panos M. Pardalos. Springer International Publishing AG.
- 2018. Dynamics of Disasters: Algorithmic Approaches and Applications, (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas and Panos M. Pardalos. Springer International Publishing Switzerland AG
References
- ^ 'Nagurney among "stellar scholars" in citation study', In The Loop, News for Faculty & Staff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 20 November 2008
- ^ INFORMS. "INFORMS Fellows: Class of 2013". INFORMS. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ "NetSci – The Network Science Society". netscisociety.net. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ "International Society of Global Optimization". www.globaloptimization.org/prizes/isogo-prizes. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ "Harold Larnder Prize". cors.ca/?q=content/harold-larnder-prize. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
External links
- American economists
- American women economists
- Fulbright Scholars
- Game theorists
- Living people
- American operations researchers
- American people of Ukrainian descent
- University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
- American women mathematicians
- 1950s births
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Ukrainian mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 20th-century women mathematicians
- 21st-century women mathematicians
- Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences