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Anna Nagurney
John F. Smith Memorial Professor

Director - Virtual Center for Supernetworks
and
Director - Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization

Department of Finance and Operations Management
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003

Voice: 413-545-5635 Fax: 413-545-3858
nagurney@gbfin.umass.edu

Associated Faculty Member:
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
and
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Program in Transportation Engineering and Planning

Brief Bio	Research Interests and Expertise	Media and Opinion Pieces
Curriculum Vita	Recent Publications	Recent Presentations
Books	Fulbright Senior Specialist in Business Administration University of Catania, Italy	Rockefeller Foundation Humanitarian Logistics Conference Bellagio, Italy
Awards	Fulbright Distinguished Professorship University of Innsbruck, Austria	Editorships
Education	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Exploratory Seminar on Dynamic Networks	Courses and Syllabi
Photos	Visiting Positions	Doctoral Program in Management Science
Audio from Mesh Forum Presentation	What's New at the Virtual Center for Supernetworks	Faculty Advisor for UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter

Research Interests and Expertise:

Transportation networks and congestion management; Supply chain management; Financial networks with intermediation; Electric power generation and distribution networks; Supernetworks; Network economics; Energy, sustainability and environmental policies; Internet, pricing, e-commerce, and advertising; Critical infrastructure; Dynamic networks; Social networks; Knowledge networks; Game theory; Network metrics; Network performance assessment and vulnerability analysis; Reliability, robustness and security of network enterprises in the presence of disruptions; Operations research/Management science; Decentralized vs. centralized decision-making (Further information on Research Projects)

Brief Bio:

Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the first female to be appointed to a named Professorship in the University of Massachusetts system. She is the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at UMass Amherst. She received her AB, ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She devotes her career to education and research that combines operations research/management science, economics, and engineering. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of decision-making on network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics, energy and the environment, and economics and finance. Her most recent book is Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows, and Profits published in July 2006. She has authored or co-authored 8 other books including Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age, Financial Networks, Sustainable Transportation Networks, and Network Economics, edited the book, Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks, and authored or co-authored more than 125 refereed journal articles.

She has given invited talks in Sweden, New Zealand, China, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Cyprus, Iceland, the US, and other countries and her research has garnered funding from many foundations, including the National Science Foundation. Among the honors she has received are: the University of Massachusetts Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, an INFORMS Moving Spirit Award, a Science 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 M. Cruz, "International Financial Networks with Intermediation: Modeling, Analysis, and Computations," was awarded the best paper prize for 2004 by the journal Computational Management Science. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brown University.

In 2007, Professor Anna Nagurney was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). In 2007, she also received the Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences from the Forum of Women in OR/MS of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

She has served on numerous prize committees, including the Fudan Premium Fund of Management Prize committee in Shanghai, China, the INFORMS Transportation Science Section Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Prize in Transportation Science committee, the INFORMS Computer Science Technical Section prize committee, and the Discipline Advisory Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards.

Professor Anna Nagurney is on the Advisory Board of the European Union funded COMISEF project, which is a multi-year, multi-national project and regularly serves on government panels and international conference organizing committees.

She 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 on the editorial boards of the journals: Networks, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Computational Economics, Computational Management Science, Annals of Regional Science, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, The Journal of Financial Decision Making, Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, Optimization Letters, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, and the International Transactions in Operational Research.

Professor Nagurney is a participant in the INFORMS Speakers Bureau.

Professor Nagurney is the Faculty Advisor to the UMass - Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and its associated Lecture Series. The chapter received the Annual Award Summa Cum Laude at the INFORMS Seattle Annual Meeting in 2007 for its activities.

Education:

Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) Brown University, 1983
Sc.M. (Applied Mathematics) Brown University, 1980
Sc.B. (Applied Mathematics) Brown University, 1977
A.B. (Russian) Brown University, 1977

Awards:

         Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Conference Organizer and Convener: "Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa," Lake Como, Italy, May 2008.

       Senior Fulbright Specialist in Business Administration, University of Catania, Italy, March 2008.

      Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2007.

      Elected Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in 2007.

          Radcliffe Institute Science Fellow - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005 - 2006;
          Professor Nagurney was one of twelve Science Fellows and her project was on Dynamic Networks.

University of Massachusetts Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, 2005; Professor Nagurney was one of twelve recipients of this award which was based on a university-wide selection process; 2005 was the first time this award was given.

INFORMS Moving Spirit Award, 2005; Professor Nagurney received this award for her service to the UMass Amherst INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Student Chapter.

Computational Management Science, Best Paper Award 2004 for International Financial Networks with Intermediation: Modeling, Analysis, and Computations (co-authored with Jose M. Cruz).

College Outstanding Research Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004 - 2005

Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Research Team Fellowship, 2003; The award was made in 2003 and the research team residency was in March 2004. Professor Nagurney was the lead on the research team residency which was the first in operations research/applied mathematics in the Bellagio Center's history, dating back to 1959. The residency was at the Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy.

AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellowship, 2002 ; continuation of the 2001 award.

AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellowship, 2001 ; awarded to establish the Supernetworks Center with a focus on environmental research and to conduct research.

Fulbright/University of Innsbruck Distinguished Faculty Chair, Innsbruck, Austria, 2001-2002 ; Professor Nagurney instructed three courses at the SOWI School of Business and conducted research on networks.

Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000 ; awarded for exceptional research, teaching, and service to the University of Massachusetts.

Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999-2000; one of four selected; delivered Distinguished Lecture entitled, "Networks for Fun and Profits."

Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship, National Highway Institute, 1999 ; this was an award based on a national competition.

Distinguished Guest Professor - KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, 1996; Professor Nagurney received this professorship based on an international competition to enhance the visibility of female scientists in Sweden. While at KTH she taught a course and was based in the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory and the Division of Regional Planning.

Beta Gamma Sigma, 1993; elected to membership.

National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, 1991; Professor Nagurney was one of 100 female scientists and engineers in the US recognized in this way.

University Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989; Professor Nagurney used this fellowship to be a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Cambridge, MA for the academic year 1989-1990.

National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship for Women, 1988 ; Professor Nagurney spent the 1988-1989 year as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, MA; while there she taught a course, conducted research on parallel and serial network algorithms, and also hosted and organized a seminar series to feature distinguished female researchers in operations research.

International Kempe Prize in honor of Thord Palander, Umea University, Sweden, 1986; this award was given to Professor Nagurney for her contributions to transportation and regional science.

Management Excellence Research Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985

Society of Sigma Xi, 1982

National Slavic Honor Society, 1975

Phi Beta Kappa, 1975

Visiting Positions:

      Consultant to the World Bank, Washington, DC, June 2008

       Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Conference Convener - Lake Como, Italy, May 5-9, 2008

       Fulbright Senior Specialist in Business Administration - University of Catania, Italy, March 5-19, 2008

Radcliffe Institute Science Fellow - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005 - 2006

Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Team Residency Fellow - Bellagio Center, Italy, March, 2004

Fulbright/University of Innsbruck Distinguished Faculty Chair - Institute of Economic Theory, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, March, 2002 - July, 2002
Visiting Professor - Division of Transportation and Location Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 2001 - August, 2001

Visiting Professor - Division of Transportation and Location Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 1999 - August, 1999

Distinguished Guest Professor - Division of Optimization and Systems Theory and Division of Regional Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 1996 -January, 1997

Distinguished Lecturer - Department of Mathematical Sciences -Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, March 23-27, 1992

Visiting Scholar - Division of Applied Mathematics - Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, January, 1992 - August, 1992

Visiting Scholar - Management Science Area - Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September, 1989 - September, 1990

Visiting Associate Professor - Transportation Systems Division, Department of Civil Engineering, and Operations Research Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September, 1988 - August, 1989

Books:

Supply Chain Network Economics	Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks	Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age	Sustainable Transportation Networks
Network Economics (second edition)	Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy Analysis	Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics	Projected Dynamical Systems and Variational Inequalities with Applications
Advances in Equilibrium Modeling, Analysis and Computation

Courses taught at the University of Massachusetts:

FOMGT 341: Transportation and Logistics (Syllabus)
FOMGT 348: Advanced Problems in Operations Management
FOMGT 353: Management Science (Syllabus)
FOMGT 456: Management Science Applications (Syllabus)
SOM 632: Introduction to Computers and Information Systems
SOM 751: Introduction to Management Science
SOM 821: Management Science I (Syllabus)
SOM 822: Management Science II (Syllabus)
SOM 823: Mathematical Programming (Syllabus)
SOM 825: Management Science Doctoral Seminar
SOM 895: Decision Support Systems
CHEM E 445: Chemical Process Design

Courses taught at the University of Innsbruck, Austria:
(Syllabi)

Network Economics
Financial Networks
Sustainable Transportation

Course taught at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH Sweden):

Variational Inequalities and Projected Dynamical Systems

Course taught at the Summer University of Southern Stockholm (Sweden):

Network Economics

Course taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

1.207 Transportation Network Equilibrium Analysis

Summer workshop course taught at Cornell University:

Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Programming

Editorships:

Editor - New Dimensions in Networks (Book Series)
Co-Editor - Advances in Computational Economics (Book Series)
Associate Editor - Advances in Computational Management Science (Book Series)
Associate Editor - Networks
Associate Editor - Computational Economics, formerly Computer Science in Economics and Management
Associate Editor - Computational Management Science
Associate Editor - Papers of the Regional Science Association International
Associate Editor - Annals of Regional Science
Associate Editor - The International Journal of High Performance Computing
Associate Editor - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Associate Editor - Optimization Letters
Associate Editor - International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
Associate Editor - Netnomics
Associate Editor - Journal of Financial Decision Making
Associate Editor - International Journal of Operational Research

Last Update: May 27, 2008