Brett Hunter

Brett Hunter wears a navy suit in his faculty profile
Titles and Organizations

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-6281
Building: Nguyen Engineering Building
Room 1703
Mail Stop: 4A7
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Biography

Brett Hunter earned his PhD in Statistics from Colorado State University.  He won multiple teaching awards and mentored junior graduate teaching assistants as a graduate student. His research interests include statistical computing, extreme value theory, and biometric human recognition. For his dissertation, he worked with computer scientists who had developed a facial recognition algorithm to determine what characteristics in pairs of photographs of different people might commonly lead to false matches.

Degrees

  • PhD, Statistics, Colorado State University