Nataliya Ivanovna Kalashnykova is a Soviet and Mexican mathematician specializing in mathematical optimization, and especially bilevel optimization, with applications in modeling human migration and in the pricing of natural gas and toll roads.
She is a professor at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in the Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas.
[1] Kalashnykova earned a master's degree in mathematical sciences from Novosibirsk State University in 1978.
[1] Her dissertation, Control of Accuracy in Bi-Level Iteration Processes, was supervised by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bulavsky.
[3] Kalashnykova is married to Vyacheslav Kalashnikov Polishchuk, another former Soviet mathematician in Mexico.