Anna Nagurney

Anna Nagurney is a Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in the field of Operations Management. Nagurney holds the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at Amherst.[1] She received a BS in Applied Mathematics, an AB in Russian Language and Literature, an ScM in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, all from Brown University, Providence, RI. Nagurney's Doctoral Advisor at Brown University was Stella Dafermos. Anna has contributed to many different areas of operations research with a focus on network systems from congested urban transportation networks to complex supply chains with applications to food, healthcare, disaster relief, among others. She is the author/co-author of over 195 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters as well as 14 books. She has given keynote talks in many countries, including the US, UK, Colombia, Sweden, France, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, among others. She has supervised the doctoral dissertations of 21 PhDs. She has held visiting faculty appointments at MIT, at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, at SOWI at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University in the UK during the Trinity term in 2016. She also enjoys advancing the research surrounding the Braess paradox.

She is an avid blogger on her blog: RENeW (Research, Education, Networks, and the World).

She is one of the 44 women featured in the book, STEM Gems, by Stephanie Espy.