Bio

Russell King is the Henry Armfield Foscue Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at NC State University. He also holds titles as Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. Many companies—including Ford Motors, The Gap, Dillards Department Stores, and the Institute for Defense and Business—have sought his consulting expertise. His teaching, advising, and research have earned him numerous awards, including the Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award and the Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering Award from IISE. He previously directed CAMAL. Before joining NC State, he worked as a Systems Analyst for Dynamac Corporation of Rockville, Maryland, and served as an Industrial Engineer at the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.

He and his daughter have earned the title of Masters of Taekwondo under Grand Master K.S. Lee of Morrisville, NC.

Area(s) of Expertise

King’s research interests include logistics, scheduling and inventory control for additive manufacturing/remanufacturing/military systems under risk.

Publications

• Enhancing Military Load Planning: A Prioritized 2-D Orthogonal Packing Approach , (2025)
• Military maritime load planning instances for prioritized two-dimensional orthogonal packing , Open MIND (2025)
• The 2-D Orthogonal Packing Problem with Multiple Levels of Prioritization: A Spatial Optimization Perspective , (2025)
• Air Movement Operations Planning Heuristic Improvement , (2023)
• Price competition and cost efficiency facing buyer’s bounded rationality , International Journal of Production Economics (2023)
• Two-stage stochastic programming model of US Army aviation allocation of utility helicopters to task forces , The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology (2023)
• An analysis of optimal ordering policies for a two-supplier system with disruption risk , Omega - The International Journal of Management Science (2021)
• Resource planning for direct fabrication of customized orthopedic implants using EBM technology , Journal of Manufacturing Systems (2021)
• Logistics of carpet recycling in the U.S.: designing the recycling network , The Journal of The Textile Institute (2020)
• Modeling and transportation planning for US noncombatant evacuation operations in South Korea , Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics (2020)

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