Jayashankar Swaminathan
GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Operations
Jayashankar (Jay) Swaminathan is an internationally recognized thought leader on productivity and innovation in business operations.
He teaches courses on operations, global supply chain management, technology and value chain innovation in graduate and executive programs.
Dr. Swamathan is an inducted fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).
Dr. Swaminathan has published more than 70 scholarly journal articles and is the author of “Indian Economic Superpower: Fiction or Future?” and co-author of “Responsible Operations.”
He is a department editor for Management Science and Production and Operations Management journals.
He has consulted with numerous firms over the last 30 years.
Dr. Swaminathan has received numerous awards for his research, teaching and service, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, George Nicholson Prize, Schwabacher Fellowship and POM Best Department Editor Award. He received the Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellowship, Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in Research, Weatherspoon Excellence for Teaching in the PhD Program and the Roy Holsten Award for Exceptional Service at UNC Kenan-Flagler.
He was a principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative and U.S. Department of Education.
Dr. Swaminathan has served in various leadership roles at UNC Kenan-Flagler, including as senior associate dean for academic affairs, associate dean of global executive MBA programs, director of the Global Business Center and area chair of operations.
He is fellow of the academic leadership program in the Institute of Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill.
He received his PhD and master’s degree in industrial administration from GSIA (now Tepper) at Carnegie Mellon University and his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
