Dr. Anagnos served as Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education from 2015 to 2023. She is a former engineering professor where her teaching and research interests included mechanics, structural analysis, reliability, seismic hazard, loss estimation, and engineering education and pedagogy.

She has a strong commitment to helping reduce damage and losses from future earthquakes through both research and outreach activities with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and the NHERI@UCSD shake table facility.

She is passionate about increasing the numbers of underrepresented students in STEM fields. For 20 years she served on the coordinating committee for the San Jose State University Expanding Your Horizons Conference to interest more young women in mathematics, science and engineering and currently serves on the organizing committee for the Silicon Valley Women in Engineering Conference.