Anna Nagurney
Director, Virtual Center for Supernetworks, PhD Coordinator & John F. Smith Memorial Professor Operations & Information Management
Office: Isenberg 316
Tel: 413.545.5635
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Academic Background
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.
