Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith
Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the Founding Director of
the Virtual Center for Supernetworks (http://supernet.som.umass.edu)
and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization.
Professor Nagurney also holds appointments in the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering at UMASS Amherst. She has devoted her career to
research and education that combines management science / operations
research, economics, and engineering. Her focus is the theoretical and
applied aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of
transportation and logistics; economics and finance, and
telecommunications, including the Internet. She is the editor of the
book, Innovations in Financial
and Economic Networks,
published in 2003, and has authored or co-authored eight other books,
including Supernetworks:
Decision-Making for the
Information Age, Sustainable
Transportation Networks, and Network
Economics: A Variational Inequality
Approach. She has published over 100 refereed journal articles.
Anna holds Ph.D., Sc M., Sc.B. degrees (all in Applied Mathematics) and
an A.B. degree (in Russian Language and Literature) from Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island. Among the awards she has
received include: Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
at Harvard University, a Bellagio Center Research Team Residency in
Italy from the Rockefeller Foundation, a Distinguished Chaired
Fulbright held at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, two AT&T
Industrial Ecology Fellowships, an Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship, an
NSF Visiting Professorship for Women held at MIT, an NSF Faculty Award
for Women, and the Kempe Prize from the University of Umea, Sweden.
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