Dr. Modarres is an expert in probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear and other complex engineering systems. His research also includes probabilistic physics of failure and probabilistic fracture mechanics with applications to airframes, nuclear reactor vessels, support structures and piping of advanced nuclear plants including characterization of all uncertainties. His interests in reliability science and prognosis and health management include experimental and thermodynamics-based damage modeling. He is an expert in Bayesian methods, data fusion, and sensor-based, big data analytics.

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