 About
the Director: 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 also 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 management, economics, and engineering. Her
focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems,
particularly
in the areas of transportation and logistics and economics and finance.
Her most recent book is Supply Chain
Network Economics
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 120 refereed journal articles. For a
full
list of her publications see her Curriculum
Vita.Professor Nagurney has been featured in Science and was named an Intellectual Leader in Regional Science according to the number of citations to her published articles. In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International. In 2007 she also received the INFORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research / Management Sciences, known as the WORMS award. 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 Radcliffe 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 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. During March 2008,
Professor Nagurney was a Senior Fulbright
Specialist in Business Administration at the University of
Catania in Italy. In May 2008 she led the conference, Humanitarian
Logistics: Networks for Africa, under the auspices of the
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference and Study Center
programs. In 2008, she was
appointed a consultant to the World Bank. 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 Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance, 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. Click here for more info. Professor Nagurney has
been elected to the Advisory
Council of the Society for Computational Economics for the term
2007-2010. Professor Nagurney is
the Faculty Advisor to the UMass
- Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and its associated Lecture
Series. On November 6, 2007, the chapter received
the INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award Summa Cum Laude, the first
year the award was given, for its activities in 2006 at the
INFORMS Meeting in Seattle, Washington. For more information see Professor Nagurney's home page.
Last update: May 27, 2008 |
