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MONICA GABRIELA COJOCARU
Professor of Mathematics Phone: (519)-824-4120 ext. 53293
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph E-mail: mcojocar@uoguelph.ca
50 Stone Road East, MacNaughton Bldg. 549
Guelph, ON Canada N1G 2W1
CV HIGHLIGHTS
Research interests:
Dynamical systems, Game theory and Applications, Emergent dynamics in models of populations; Network and equilibrium problems; Diverse topics with applications to Engineering, Management Science, Population Behavior and Health Policy.
GRANTS:
2,000,000 CAD – as Principal Investigator excluding overhead
SUPERVISION:
35 graduate and 14 undergraduate trainees
To completion: 2 Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF), 3 Research Assistants, 6 Ph.D., 18 M.Sc. students
Current: 2 PDF, 1 Ph.D. students, 3 M. Sc. Students; 1 URA
Trainees Accomplishments: 3 tenure-track appointments (2 in USA, 1 in Italy), several industry positions (ScotiaBank CA, Bell Labs, Royal Bank of Canada, Rubikloud Tech), current Ph.D. or M. Sc. candidates in other mathematics programs.
MAJOR AWARDS - FELLOWSHIPS
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Accelerator Award 2017 - 2020
Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair 01-05/2010
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) University Faculty Award 2003 - 2008
Rockefeller Fellowship 03/2004
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow 05-09/2003
Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories 2002 - 2003
(at Canadian Space Agency)
FUNDING:
As Principal Investigator:
NSERC Alliance Option 2 300,000 CAD 2023-2025
NSERC Collaborative R&D Grant 90,000 CAD 2019-2021
NSERC Accelerator Grant 120,000 CAD 2017-2020
NSERC Discovery Grant 120,000 CAD 2017-2022
NSERC Engage Grant 24,000 CAD 2016-2017
With Canada Sanofi Pasteur
Canada-US Fulbright Eco-Leadership Award 3,600 CAD 2013 - 2014
NSERC Discovery Grant 90,000 CAD 2011 - 2017
Fulbright Research Chair Grant 25,000 US 2010
Ontario Centers of Excellence & City of Guelph
(PI with 2 colleagues) 26,500 CAD 2008 - 2009
University Faculty Award 200,000 CAD 2003 - 2008
NSERC Discovery Grant 65,000 CAD 2006 - 2011
Canada Foundation for Innovation 820,000 CAD 2005 - 2009
(PI with 4 colleagues)
NSERC Discovery Grant 33,000 CAD 2003 - 2006
U of Guelph Start-up Fund 25,000 CAD 2003 - 2006
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow 40,000 CAD 04-08/2003
As co-applicant:
CIHR M-pox modelling (PI: B. Nasri) 200,000 CAD 2023 - 2025
Long-COVID Web (P.I. Angela Chung) 2022 - ongoing
NSERC Research and Instruments Grant 58,000 CAD 2011 - 2012
(P. McNicholas – PI, 7 others)
Rockefeller Fellowship 1,650 CAD 03/2004
(with A. Nagurney – PI, P. Daniele)
Public lectures:
MS2Discovery Institute 2017: Generalized Nash games and applications, Wilfrid Laurier University.
The 2012 University of Toronto Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Mind: Games Decisions & Dynamics, 2012: Objective and subjective decision factors in consumer behavior.
Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, 2011: Objective and subjective decision factors: modeling human behavior from individual to population scale, University of Waterloo.
Department of Mathematical Economics and Operations Research, University of Brescia 2011, Invited Lectures: Dynamic games and variational inequalities I and II.
Fulbright Visiting Chair, Bren School of Environmental Sciences Research Colloquium 2010: Objective and subjective decision factors: modeling human behavior from individual to population scale, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB);
Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics Invited Lecture, 2009: Objective and subjective decision factors: modeling decisions from individual to population scale.
Women in Mathematics Lecture, University of Waterloo, 2008: Can mathematics answer real-life challenges? From vaccination to environmental choices via operations research.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Ph. D. Mathematics Queen’s University at Kingston 1998 - 2002
M. Sc. Mathematics University of Bucharest 1996 - 1997
B. Sc. Mathematics University of Bucharest 1991 - 1996
Employment:
Guelph: Professor, Mathematics, University of Guelph 2018-ongoing
Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Guelph 2008 - 2017
NSERC UFA Assistant Professor of Mathematics with tenure Guelph 2007 - 2008
NSERC UFA Assistant Professor of Mathematics Guelph 2003 - 2007
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (at CRM Montreal) 2003
Adjunct Assistant Professor 2002 - 2003
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University
Research Assistant 1998 - 2002
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University
Lecturer 2001 - 2003
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University
Teaching Assistant 1998 - 2000
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University
Lecturer 1997 - 1998
“C. Brancoveanu” University, Romania
Visiting and Affiliate Positions:
Senior Visiting Research Fellow 02/2017-08/2019
Lehigh University, PA USA
Visiting Researcher Oct-Nov.2016
GERAD HEC Montreal
Affiliate Researcher & Board Member
Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation 2012 - ongoing
Visiting Professor
University of Brescia 04/2011
Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair
University of California at Santa Barbara 01-05/2010
Visiting Member
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences 09/2009
Visiting Researcher
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University 04-05/2007
Visiting Scholar
Division of Engineering and Applied Science Harvard University 04-05/2006
Visiting Member
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences 02-03/2006
Visiting Researcher
Centre des Recherches Mathematiques 09/2005
Other Awards, Fellowships etc.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2001 - 2002
The NORTEL Networks Graduate Fellowship 2000 - 2001
Queen's University Graduate Fellowship 1998 - 2002
CONFERENCES & TALKS
Invited Conference Presentations (including upcoming confirmed):
Upcoming:
2023-2024 Colloquium on Mathematics for Public Health, Population mobility, well-mixed clustering and disease spread: a look at COVID-19 Spread in the United States and policy insights (Oct. 2023)
AMMCS 2023, Behaviour quantification vis-`a-vis adoption of public policy – NPI measures during COVID-19 in Ontatio (Aug. 2023)
The 4th International Conference on Dynamics of Differential Equations in Memory of Jack K. Hale, Reclustering of populations based on mobility-driven well-mixing using reinforcement learning - disease spread insights (Aug. 2023)
CERP Lyon/Fields Institute Workshop, Modelling Workshop in Infectious Diseases, A framework for behaviour quantification vis-a-vis adoption of public policy measures - lessons from nonpharmaceutical measures during COVID-19 in Ontario, (July 2023)
INFOMRS Health Informatics 2023, Toronto - poster (D. Lyver 1st author) Reclustering of populations based on mobility-driven well-mixing using reinforcement learning - disease spread insights;
CMS Toronto, Individual risk and discomfort perceptions, NPI policies and the evolution of the pandemic in Ontario 2020, Dec. 2022
CMS St. John's NL, June 2022
CAIMS June 2022
CAIMS June 2021 - Session: YOUNG CANADIAN RESEARCHERS - CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL
MODELLING IN PUBLIC POLICY (talk by Z. Mohammadi)
Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting (July 2020): Modelling in Biomathematics: COVID-19 and beyond - organizer
Workshop on Dynamics, Optimization and Variational Analysis in Applied Games, April 30 - May 1, 2020, The Fields Institute
Borders in Public Health and Epidemiology - The Fields Intitute Workshop - October 2019 - Controlling infection in a predator-prey model with transmission dynamics
MOPTA 2019 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, The replicator dynamics and generalized Nash Games, (2019, August); Optimal design of vaccination catchup programs with incentives (2019, August).
Euro2019 – 30TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, Dynamics of generalized Nash games and evolutionary games, (2019, June).
NSERC Sanofi-York IRC at Fields Institute: Workshop on Vaccine Dynamics Modelling and Immunization Program Optimization, Optimal design of vaccination catchup programs with incentives (2019, May)
PUBLIC HEALTH 2019 – Multi-pathogen infection prevention policy in a child care facility (2019, April)
CMS Vancouver, The replicator dynamics for generalized Nash Games, (2018, December).
Euro2018 – 29TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, Game theoretic scenarios of cybersecurity investment models in a sellers – buyers’ market, (2018, July).
Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting 2017, Waterloo: Linking generalized Nash games and replicator dynamics
MOPTA 2017, Lehigh University: Mail delivery by drones.
15th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization Montréal, July 2017: Bifurcations in Two-Player Nonlinear Games Using Nonsmooth Dynamics and Variational Inequalities
8-th Workshop on Dynamic Games, GERAD Montreal, Oct. 2016, Emergence of equilibrium help strategies and runaway competitive helping with increased partner matching and passively provided help.
ICCOPT 2016, Tokyo: Generalized Nash Games and Cap and Trade Environmental Models
AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations & Applications. Absenteeism, Presenteeism and Infectious Diseases in a Local Economy (2016, July).
AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems Differential Equations & Applications. Generalized Nash Games, Vaccination Policies and Environmental Accords, (2016, July).
EURO 2015, Glasgow: Bifurcations of 2-dimensional projected systems and vaccinating games.
AMMCS 2015, Waterloo, 3 talks: (given by co-authors)
Canadian Mathematical Society June 2015, PEI.
The Fields Institute, CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION, TRANSPORTATION AND EQUILIBRIUM IN ECONOMICS – Sept. 2014, Equilibrium in competitive help models in biological markets.
Optimization, Control and Applications in the Information Age, 2014: Generalized Nash Games and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities.
ASE/IEEE 2013, Washington, D.C.: A Dynamic Pricing Game in a Model of New Product Adoption with Social Influence
AMMCS 2013, Waterloo: Equation-based and Agent-based models of adoption behaviour in multi-dimensional characteristics space
ICCOPT 2013, Lisbon: Solving generalized Nash games with shared constraints through evolutionary variational inequalities
EURO/INFORMS 2013, Rome: Solving generalized Nash games with shared constraints through evolutionary variational inequalities
8-th DEDS 2012, Waterloo: Stability of Generalized Nash Game Solutions via Evolutionary Variational Inequalities
AIMS 2012, Orlando, Florida: Stability of Generalized Nash Game Solutions via Evolutionary Variational Inequalities
AMS 2011, New Orleans: Dynamics of equilibrium problems via hybrid systems.
EURO XXIV, 2010: Dynamics of equilibrium problems: a hybrid systems approach;
AIMS 2010: Dynamics of equilibrium problems: a hybrid systems approach;
MOPTA 2010: A Model for Social Network Interaction with the Stock Market
ICNAAM 2009 : Dynamics of equilibrium problems: a hybrid systems approach – talk 1; Non-autonomous projected dynamical systems - talk 2
CMS-SSC Vancouver 2009: Hybrid dynamical systems and dynamics of networks and games
ISMP Chicago 2009: Network Problems, Dynamic Games and Hybrid Dynamical Systems
INFORMS Toronto and MOPTA 2009 - talks given by S. Greenhalgh: Network Equilibrium problems and hybrid dynamical systems.
CMS Ottawa, December 2008 : Projected dynamical systems in Banach spaces
MOPTA 2008, Guelph: Tracking the dynamics of network equilibrium problems and markets of environmental products.
4-th WCNA - IFNA 2008, Orlando, Applications of variational inequalities to eco-housing markets.
CMMSE 2008, Spain: Dynamics of networks: from vaccination strategies to eco-housing markets.
Advances in Global Optimization, Greece 2007: Equilibrium dynamics of group vaccination strategies in a heterogeneous population with a given vaccine coverage profile.
ICIAM 2007, Zurich (2 presentations): Equilibrium dynamics of group vaccination strategies in a heterogeneous population with a given vaccine coverage profile; Double-layer dynamics and human migration after catastrophic events .
ICCOPT/MOPTA 2007, McMaster University: Time-dependent games and migration problems with applications.
International Summer School Guido Stampacchia: International Workshop on VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, Erice July 2006. Dynamics of vaccination strategies in a heterogeneous population.
INTAS Summer school: Nonlinear analysis with applications in Economics, Energy and Transportation, Bergamo, Italy, June 2006. Recent advances in the theory and applications of projected dynamical systems and double-layered dynamics.
INFORMS, San Francisco 2005, Session Chair: Transportation Science & Logistics. Double layer dynamics and transportation.
4th International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Stanford University 2005. Recent advances in projected dynamical systems: double layered dynamics.
CMS/CSHPM Summer 2005 Meeting. Recent advances in the theory of projected dynamical systems: Persistence and adjustment in double layered dynamics.
SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 2005, Sweden. Projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities via Hilbert spaces
Dynamics Day '05 Workshop, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, April 2004: Persistence and adjustment in double layered dynamics.
Seminar Analyse Nonlinéaire/Systèmes Dynamiques, CRM, 2004: Projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities via Hilbert spaces.
INFORMS Annual Meeting Denver 2004 (presented by co-author A. Nagurney): Projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities with applications to dynamic traffic networks.
Fourth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts WCNA, June 2004(presented by co-author P. Daniele): Projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities with applications to dynamic traffic networks.
First Joint Canada-France Meeting of the Mathematical Sciences, Toulouse, Jul 2004. Projected differential equations; projected dynamical systems: new developments.
CMS Summer Meeting, June 2004.Projected dynamical systems and evolutionary variational inequalities with applications to dynamic traffic networks.
Fields Institute, Young Mathematicians Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems. Jan 2004, PDS Overview and recent developments.
CMS Winter 2003. Periodic solutions for projected dynamical systems.
Other events:
CMS June-2002. A type of constrained dynamical system.
CMS -Toronto/December 8-10/2001. Dynamics of solutions to variational inequalities.
Graduate Industrial Mathematical Modelling Camp -Workshop-Victoria/June 2001. Project : The Web-hosting Service Level Agreement
Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences Workshop-Seattle/June 2001. The Web-hosting Service Level Agreement (cont’d).
American Mathematical Society Meeting - Toronto/ September 2000. Presentation: Exceptional Family of elements and the solvability of variational inequalities on unbounded sets.
Seminars, lectures, posters
ISE seminar, Lehigh University talk, 2017
GERAD Seminar talk, November 2016
Dept. of Economics Seminar Series, Guelph 2014: Solving Generalized Nash games.
WLU Science Seminar, 2013: EBM and ABM of adoption in multi-dimensional characteristics
UCSB, Applied Mathematics Seminar 2010: Solvability of Projected Equations in Banach Spaces.
Invited Seminar, Management Sciences Department, University of Waterloo 2009
Dynamics Group, Wilfrid Laurier University, Talk, 03/2008.
Advanced Optimization Laboratory Seminar Series, McMaster University, 03/2007.
Operations Research Seminar/BioM&S Seminar Guelph, 09/2006.
Dynamics Day '05 Workshop, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 04/2005.
Seminar Analyse Nonlinéaire/Systèmes Dynamiques, CRM, U de Montreal, 09/2004.
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Team Residency 03/2004.
Optimization, Dynamical Systems & Applied Analysis Seminar 2004, U of Guelph
Optimization and Applied Analysis Seminar, Fall Talk 2003, U of Guelph
Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Guelph 09/2002
SIAM Annual Meeting -San Diego/July 2001, Poster
Dynamical Systems Seminar - series of talks from my doctoral research, Queen's, 1999-2000
SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS
Departmental level:
CRC Search Committee 2022
Graduate Coordinator, Chair of Grad Committee 2021-2022
Graduate Committee, Mathematics & Statistics 2017-2019
Chair Advisory Committee 2015-2016
MATH 4600 Project Course Coordinator 2009-11, W12-W14, 2021 (F & W)
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Chair, Mathematics and Statistics 2010-2011
Appointments Committee, Mathematics, Mathematics and Statistics 2006-2007
Information Officer-Mathematics, Mathematics and Statistics 2004-2008
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member 2003-2005, 2008-2009, 2013-2014
University level:
Interim Associate Dean of Research and Grad Studies CEPS 2022-2024
Senator 2022-2024
Senator, Student Petition Committee 2015-2016
Senator, Senate Committee on Open Learning (SCOL)
member (Vice Chair of SCOL for a short period) 2007-2009
Departmental Representative, B. Sc. Program Committee 2005-2010, W 2012
Graduate Committee Member (Queen's) 2001-2002
Graduate Student Seminar Organizer (Queen's) 1999-2000
Provincial: & National
NSERC DG EG 1508 Member 2022-2025
NSERC CREATE Review Committee Member 2017-2019
Ontario Graduate Scholarship Mathematics Panel Member 2005-2006
Ontario Graduate Scholarship VISA Panel Chair 2005-2006
Ontario Graduate Scholarship VISA Panel Member 2004-2005
OFF-CAMPUS RECOGNITION
Event & seminar organization:
Workshop on Dynamics, Optimization and Variational Analysis in Applied Games, April 30 - May 1, 2020, The Fields Institute
MOPTA 2019 Chair http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta2019/
7-th Summer Solstice Conference, June 18-20 2015, at The Fields Institute, Toronto - Organizing Committee Member
AMMCS 2015: Minisymposium on Game Theory (co-organized with R. Cressmann and J. Appaloo) June 7-8, 2015, Waterloo
Fulbright Canada Eco-leadership Award – activities organizer in local community: raising awareness on electronic waste recycling
AMMCS 2013 – Program Committee Chair
EURO XXIV-INFORMS – Session Co-organizer
AMMCS 2011- Waterloo, Double mini-symposium: Complex dynamics of population behavior
with impact on socio-economic issues
MOPTA 2008, Organizing Committee Chair;
ICIAM 2007, Zurich, Double mini-symposium on “Dynamics of equilibrium problems via game theory, variational inequalities, complementarity and projected dynamical systems”
INFORMS, San Francisco 2005, Session Chair and co-organizer, “Advances in transportation modelling”.
Coordinator and organizer of the Operations Research, Computation & Analysis of Systems Working Group @ Guelph 2006-on
ORCAS Seminar Series. Organizer 2006-ongoing
Dynamics Day Workshop, April 7, 2006, U. of Guelph and The Fields Institute (co-org)
Optimization, Dynamical Systems & Applied Analysis Seminar, Guelph, 2004-2006 (co-org)
Refereeing:
Transportation Research E., Transportation Research Part B, European Journal of Operations Research, Logistics and Transportation E., Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Mathematical Programming, Applied Mathematics Letters, Journal of Nonlinear Science
Press:
My tenure as the first Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Chair awarded to a faculty from Guelph has featured our university and my department and College in the local press, as well as in press releases of the Fulbright Foundation and of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Interviewed for Guelph Mercury in “Dropping calculus doesn't add up, professors say”, Mercury Feb. 3, 2006.
SGI Press release, December 2006 “University of Guelph chooses SGI technology for mathematics research”.
Nagurney, A., Enhancing Research through E-science, Chronicle of Higher Education, letter to the editor, Feb. 4, 2005
Due to the Rockefeller Fellowship in 2004, I was mentioned in two important informational publications, Operations Research and Management Science (ORMS) International Issue and the Association of Women in Mathematics Newsletter.