Noel Greis

Noel Greis

Dr. Greis is director of the Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is also adjunct professor of operations, technology and innovation management. She works closely with industry to help them redesign their business processes to be more secure and real-time in complex global markets through the use of new digital technologies. In the Center's Intelligent Systems Lab, she is developing "smart" software and informatics tools that help organizations prepare for unexpected and disruptive events that threaten their operations—including knowledge discovery tools that uncover new risks, predictive analytics for anticipating disruptive events, and awareness and learning for event intervention. With funding from the Department of Homeland Security, the Millennial Cybersecurity Project is exploring how risky cyber behaviors by millennials can be modified to improve an organization's cybersecurity. In other research she is developing critical capabilities for visualizing, analyzing and integrating critical data to better detect and manage foodborne contamination threats, whether intentional or unintentional. She is also co-founder and co-director of the UNC-Tsinghua Center for Logistics and Enterprise Development, a joint research center between UNC and Tsinghua University in Beijing. She received her Ph.D., M.S.E. and M.A. degrees in engineering from Princeton University and her B.A. in mathematics from Brown University and has received a number of awards for her work. Previously, Dr. Greis was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories and Bell Communications Research.