Nelly Vladimirovna Litvak (Russian: Нелли Владимировна Литвак, born January 27, 1972)^[1] is a Russian and Dutch applied mathematician whose research includes the study of complex networks, stochastic processes, and their applications in medical logistics. Formerly a professor at the University of Twente, she moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2023.^[2]

Nelly Litvak was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), Russia^[1] to Nina Zvereva [ru] and Vladimir Antonets.^[3][4] In 1995 Litvak graduated from the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod,^[5] and in 1998 she earned the candidate's degree in physical and mathematical sciences from the latter university with the dissertation Adaptive Control of Conflicting Flows supervised by Mikhail Andreevich Fedotkin.^[6] In 1999 she moved to the Netherlands.^[1] She completed another doctoral degree in 2002, a Ph.D. from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the dissertation Collecting ${\displaystyle n}$ Items Randomly Located on a Circle, completed in EURANDOM,^[7] jointly promoted by Ivo Adan, Jaap Wessels, and Henk Zijm.^[8]

She became a lecturer at the University of Twente in 2002, and was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2018. In 2017, she took on a second part-time affiliation with the Eindhoven University of Technology, and in 2023 she moved from Twente to a full-time position at the Eindhoven University of Technology,^[2] as professor of algorithms for complex networks.^[9]

Litvak is the author of several popular science books, including:

• Наши хорошие подростки (Our good teenagers, in Russian, Alpina, 2010)
• Формула призвания – 7 правил выбора вуза (Vocation formula – 7 rules for choosing university, Alpina, 2012)
• IQ to Love: What makes highly intelligent men attractive to women (self-published, 2014)
• Кому нужна математика? Понятная книга о том, как устроен цифровой мир (Who Needs Mathematics? [ru] A Clear Book about how the Digital World Works, with Andrey Raygorodsky [ru], in Russian, Mann-Ivanov-Ferber («Манн, Иванов и Фербер»), 2017)
  • The book was shortlisted for the Russian 2017 Enlightener Prize.^[10]
• Математика для безнадежных гуманитариев (Mathematics for hopeless humanities geeks, with Alla Kechedzhan, in Russian, AST, 2019)

Litvak was awarded the 2002 Stieltjes Prize for her Ph.D. dissertation.^[11] She was the 2011 recipient of the Professor De Winter award of the University of Twente, given annually to recognize the research of a female faculty member.^[12] She was named the university's teacher of the year in 2022.^[13]

While in the Netherlands, Nelly Litvak married to Pranab Mandal.^[14] She has two daughters: Natalia (born in 1993 from the first marriage^[3]) and Piyali (born in 2005 to Nelly and Pranab).^[1] She has younger sister Yekaterina and brother Pyotr.^[15][3]

• Nelly Litvak publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Old profile @ UTwente (unmaintained since 2019)
• Current profile @ UTwente
• Profile @ TU/E