Anna Nagurney John F. Smith Memorial Professor   Director - Virtual Center for Supernetworks

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; Mergers and acquisitions; Humanitarian logistics; Network design; Supply chain network design for critical needs and health care products (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 Amherst.  She is also an Affiliated Faculty Member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass 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, with Q. Qiang, is Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World, published by Wiley in July 2009. She is also the author of Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamic 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 150 refereed journal articles and numerous book chapters.

She has given invited and plenary talks in Austria, Ukraine, 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.

She is presently a Co-PI on a National Science Foundation grant, Network Innovation Through Choice, with Professor Tilman Wolf, PI, of the UMass Amherst Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The grant is for 2011-2014. She is also a Co-PI on the 2012 ASCS grant: Cybersecurity Risk Analysis and Security Investment Optimization.

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. 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.

Professor Anna Nagurney has been appointed a Visiting Professor in Operations Management at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she will be spending part of her 2012-2013 sabbatical.

In 2012, she received the Spotlight Scholar Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was recognized for her research with the 2011-2012 Reseach Excellence Award from the Isenberg School of Management.

In 2011, Professor Nagurney was a keynote speaker at the NetGCoop Conference in Paris, France, and at the PAKDD 2011 Conference in Shenzen, China. She was also a keynote speaker at the SAMSI workshop in Raleigh, North Carolina and spoke on her research on sustainability. She was the Honorary Co-Chair of the IEEE Conference on Supernetworks and System Management Conference in Shanghai, China and was also the Tutorial Chair of the SBP 2011 Conference in College Park, Maryland and on the Program Committee of the 2011 Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

She was the Chair of the RSAI Fellow Selection Committee for 2011.

In 2011, Professor Anna Nagurney was recognized with the Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award and with the Outstanding Service Award from INFORMS for her work on the First Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference that was held at UMass Amherst, May 6-7, 2011.

In 2010, she was honored by Ernst & Young through its Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty for her outstanding example in promoting diversity and inclusiveness.

In 2008, she was appointed a consultant to the World Bank. In 2009 she was appointed an Instructor in the Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate (AMDP) through the Office of Executive Education at Harvard 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 Nagurney regularly serves on government panels and is a frequent invited professional panel speaker. She has also appeared on various TV shows and radio programs and was part of the 2012 PBS production America Revealed.

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 and, as of 2011, is the Chair of the INFORMS Speakers Program Committee.

Professor Nagurney is the Faculty Advisor to the UMass - Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and its associated Lecture Series. The chapter was recognized for its activities with the Summa Cum Laude Award at the INFORMS Seattle Meeting in 2007 and at the San Diego Meeting in 2009 and with the Magna Cum Laude Award at the INFORMS Charlotte Meeting in 2011, the Austin Meeting in 2010, and at the Washington, DC Meeting in 2008.

Books:

Fragile Networks	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

Last Update: May 23, 2012