Brett Hunter

Mason assistant professor Brett D. Hunter wears a navy suit in his faculty profile
Titles and Organizations

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

Contact Information

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

Biography

Brett Hunter earned his PhD in Statistics from Colorado State University.  As a graduate student, he won multiple teaching awards and mentored junior graduate teaching assistants. His research interests include statistical computing, extreme value theory, and biometric human recognition. For his dissertation, he worked with computer scientists that 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