Julie LeAnne Swann is an American

systems engineer Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking p ...

and

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

er who studies optimization-based improvements to

supply chain In commerce, a supply chain is a network of facilities that procure raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products to customers through a distribution system. It refers to the network of organizations, people, acti ...

logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

, the mathematical modelling of infectious disease, and

disaster relief Emergency management or disaster management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actuall ...

. She is A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor and head of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

Education and career

Swann majored in

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...

at Georgia Tech, graduating in 1996. She went to

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

for graduate study in industrial engineering and management, earning a master's degree in 1998 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001. After completing her doctorate, Swann returned to Georgia Tech as a faculty member in industrial and systems engineering, in 2002. There, she became the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and co-founded the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics. She moved to her present position at North Carolina State University in 2017. She continues to hold an adjunct position at Georgia Tech, and has also taught at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland.

Recognition

Swann became a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Systems Engineers in 2020. In 2022 she was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, "for contributions to delivery of effective and equitable healthcare to populations with limited resources and improved systems for humanitarian response", and of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), "for her significant research and impact on health and humanitarian systems, outstanding educational contributions, excellence in service and academic leadership, and distinguished contributions in advocacy of the profession to the public".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Swann, Julie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American industrial engineers American women engineers Systems engineers Women systems engineers American operations researchers Georgia Tech alumni Northeastern University alumni Georgia Tech faculty North Carolina State University faculty Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences