Reza Modarres

Reza Modarres is a Professor of Statistics at The George Washington University, where he has served since 1991. He held the position of Chair of the Department of Statistics from 2007 to 2013. His expertise spans Statistical Computing, Multivariate Analysis, Environmental Statistics, and Nonparametric Statistics. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from The American University (1990), following earlier degrees in Computer Science (M.S., 1982) and a combined B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics (1981). His research focuses on interpoint distances in high-dimensional spaces, nonparametric methods, and applications in environmental and ecological statistics. Notable contributions include work on hotspot detection, multivariate hypothesis testing, and classification algorithms. Modarres has held sabbaticals at the Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His publications emphasize methodological advancements in handling complex data structures, with recent work addressing high-dimensional statistical challenges in classification and outlier detection.