Anna Nagurney
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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 degree in Russian Language and Literature, and her ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics 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 2006. She has authored or co-authored 8 other books including "Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age," "Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics," "Sustainable Transportation Networks," and "Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach;" edited the book, "Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks," and authored or co-authored more than 130 refereed journal articles on network themes.
Some of her major contributions include demonstrating how to add a link to a network so that the Braess paradox does not occur (the classical 1968 paper of Braess which she translated with Braess and Wakolbinger appeared in Transportation Science in 2005) and resolving over 50 year old hypotheses regarding how financial networks can be reformulated as transportation networks and the same holds for electric power generation and distribution networks. She is an expert on such methodologies for network problems as optimization, game theory, variational inequalities, and projected dynamical systems theory, which she helped to co-develop.
She was featured in Science magazine, in a feature on Women in Science, in 1992 and was identified as an Intellectual Leader in Regional Science in 2004, based on citations to her articles.
Among the awards and 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. She has been a Distinguished Guest Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and has also held Visiting Appointments at the Center for Transportation Studies and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Applied Mathematics Department at Brown University.
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, and the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
[edit] Major Books
Anna Nagurney, "Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows, and Profits," Edward Elgar Publishing (2006), ISBN 1-84542-916-8
Anna Nagurney, Editor, "Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks," Edward Elgar Publishing (2003), ISBN 1-84376-415-6
Anna Nagurney and June Dong, "Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age, Edward Elgar Publishing (2002), ISBN 1-84064-968-2
Anna Nagurney, "Sustainable Transportation Networks," Edward Elgar Publishing (2000), ISBN 1-84064-357-9
Anna Nagurney, "Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach," second and revised edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) (1999), ISBN 0-792-38350-8
Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda, Anna Nagurney, and Padma Ramanujam, "Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy Analysis," Edward Elgar Publishing (1999), ISBN 1-84064-041-3
Anna Nagurney and Stavros Siokos, "Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics," Springer (1997), ISBN 3-540-63116-X
Anna Nagurney and Ding Zhang, "Projected Dynamical Systems and Variational Inequalities with Applications," Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) (1996), ISBN 0-7923-9637-5
