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Shivani Shukla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Analytics and Information Systems at the School of Management at the University of San Francisco.

She completed her PhD in Business Administration with a major in Management Science at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2017.

She received her BSc and MSc in Statistics from the Gujarat University, India, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. During this period, she worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and assisted and co-authored case studies and teaching notes. She earned fellowships from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore and from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Shivani was elected President of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter for 2013-2014. She served as the chapter's Communications Director for 2012-2013.

In 2016, Shivani received the Outstanding Docoral Student Teaching Award from the Isenberg School of Management.

Her research interests include Supply Chain Management as well as Sustainability and Freight Transportation as well as Cybersecurity.

Selected Publications:

Multifirm Models of Cybersecurity Investment Competition vs. Cooperation and Network Vulnerability
Anna Nagurney and Shivani Shukla, European Journal of Operational Research 260(2): (2017), pp 588-600.

A Supply Chain Network Game Theory Model of Cybersecurity Investments with Nonlinear Budget Constraints
Anna Nagurney, Patrizia Daniele, and Shivani Shukla, Annals of Operations Research 248(1): (2017), pp 405-427.

A Supply Chain Game Theory Framework for Cybersecurity Investments Under Network Vulnerability
Anna Nagurney, Ladimer S. Nagurney, and Shivani Shukla, in Computation, Cryptography, and Network Security, N.J. Daras and M.T. Rassias, Editors, Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2015) pp 381-398.

Supply Chain Network Competition in Price and Quality with Multiple Manufacturers and Freight Service Providers
Anna Nagurney, Sara Saberi, Shivani Shukla, and Jonas Floden, Transportation Research E 77: (2015) pp 248-267.

Favorite Links:

School of Management - University of San Francisco

The Virtual Center for Supernetworks

Designing Transportation Infrastructure to Include the Human Element

Informs Journals Online

DMIC Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor