Mohammad Modarres (born 11 August 1952) is anIranian American scientist and educator in the fields ofnuclear andreliability engineering. He is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Nicole Y. Kim EminentProfessor of theUniversity of Maryland. Within the University of MarylandA. James Clark School of Engineering, Modarres founded world's first graduate curriculum in reliability engineering,[1] which has now become a leading academic program both nationally and internationally with over 400 Master's and PhD graduates.[2] As the Director of the UMD Center for Risk and Reliability, Modarres serves as international expert on reliability and risk analysis to various commercial and government organizations includingUS DOE,US NRC,NASA. A PhD graduate of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, from the scientific school ofNorman C. Rasmussen, he has authored numerous books[3] and hundreds of scholarly papers[4] in the fields of nuclear and reliability engineering.