Anna Nagurney

Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Biography

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Education

PhD, Brown University, 1983 ScM, Brown University, 1980 ScB, Brown University, 1977 AB, Brown University, 1977

Academic Appointments

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 2015-2016 Trinity Term John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, 1998-Present Director - Virtual Center for Supernetworks, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, 2001-Present Visiting Professor Operations Management, School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 2012, 2013, 2014 Science Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2005-2006

Research Interests

  • Transportation and Logistics
  • Supply Chain Networks
  • Industry Applications to Healthcare, Food, and Fashion
  • Network Systems, including Energy, Economic and Financial Ones
  • Network Performance, Robustness, and Resiliency
  • Sustainability and Environmental Issues and Policies
  • Humanitarian Logistics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Future Internet Architectures
  • Game theory, Network theory, Dynamical systems, Variational inequalities, and Optimization

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Networks
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare

Masters

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Networks
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare

PhD

  • Management Science - Optimization and Decision-making
  • Dynamical Systems and Networks
  • Advanced Topics in Transportation and Logistics
  • Topics in Supply Chain Management

Professional Background

Professional Experience

Conference Co-organizer, 6-7/2015, Dynamics of Disasters, Kalamata, Greece Guest Professor, 3/2013, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Instructor, 2009, Office of Continuing Executive Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Conference Organizer, 3/2008, Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy Fulbright Distinguished Faculty Chair in Economics, 3/2002-7/2002, SOWI Business School, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Recent Honors & Awards

University Medal, University of Catania, Italy, 2014 INFORMS Fellow, elected for outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and the management sciences, 2013 Notable Computing Article Published in 2013 – ACM Computing Reviews, 2013 Elected to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013 Walter Isard Award for distinguished scholar achievements in Regional Science, 2012 Spotlight Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012 Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011-2012 Certificate of Appreciation, 65th Public Affairs Operations Center, Massachusetts\Army National Guard, 2012 Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011 Certificate in Appreciation of Outstanding Service INFORMS Northeastern Regional Conference, 2011 The Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty, 2010

Selected Publications

A Network Economic Game Theory Model of a Service-Oriented Internet with Price and Quality Competition in Both Content and Network Provision (with S. Saberi and T. Wolf) (2014), Service Science, 6(4), 1-24.

Competitive Food Supply Chain Networks with Application to Fresh Produce (with M. Yu) (2013), European Journal of Operational Research, 224(2), 273-282.

Supply Chain Networks with Global Outsourcing and Quick-Response Production Under Demand and Cost Uncertainty (with Z. Liu) (2013), Annals of Operations Research, 208(1), 251-281.

Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products (with M. Yu, A. H. Masoumi, and L. S. Nagurney), Springer Science + Business Media, New York, NY, 2013.

Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World (with Q. Qiang), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2009.

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