Amaya McNealey is a fourth-year Industrial Engineering Ph.D. student in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is currently being advised by Dr. Jovan Julien and Dr. Nicoletta Serban. She develop data-driven models to study how healthcare and social systems shape outcomes for vulnerable populations.  Her work focuses on children in foster care, where I combine machine learning, statistical modeling, and simulation to understand how system-level factors influence mental health care and long-term outcomes. Her goal is to design more equitable and effective decision-making systems in public health.

Amaya received her B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University. While completing her B.S. she participated in an NSF-funded REU: Growing Entrepreneurially-Minded Undergraduate Researchers with New Product Development in Applied Energy where she worked with Dr. Lisa Bosman to justify the need for solar energy monitoring products and explored the effect of solar energy implementation in the healthcare systems of rural countries.