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Modarres, Mohammad

Modarres, Mohammad

Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor
Director, Center for Risk and Reliability
Mechanical Engineering
Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
Center for Risk and Reliability
0151C Glenn L. Martin Hall, Building 088
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EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980

BACKGROUND

Dr. Modarres is the Nicole Y. Kim Eminent Professor at the University of Maryland. Within the A. James Clark School of Engineering of the University of Maryland. He co-founded the world’s first degree-granting graduate curriculum in reliability engineering at the University of Maryland. As the University of Maryland Center for Risk and Reliability Director, Dr. Modarres serves as an international expert on reliability and risk analysis. He has authored numerous books, book chapters, and hundreds of scholarly papers on risk and reliability engineering. His research areas are probabilistic risk assessment, materials degradation science, probabilistic physics of failure, and probabilistic fracture mechanics. His interests in risk, reliability, structural integrity and prognosis, and health management include both experimental and probabilistic model development efforts. He is a recipient of multiple awards.  Dr. Modarres received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and MS and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Nicole Y. Kim Eminent Professorship in Engineering
  • Minta Martin Professorship in A.J. Clark School of Engineering
  • University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
  • 2019 Tommy Thompson Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to nuclear safety, American Nuclear Society 
  • Fellow, American Nuclear Society
  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • 1996 Maryland Inventor of the Year Award (in Information Sciences)
  • FDA Commissioner Special Citation for Contributions to Risk Assessment Methods, 2004
  • 2008 International Research Leadership Award conferred by the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management