Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2014
  • M.A., Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012
  • B.S., Mathematics, University of Rochester, 2008
Licenses & Certifications
  • ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer
  • Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (CSSGB)
Professional Affiliations
  • American Statistical Association
  • American Society for Quality – ASQ
  • Society of Automotive Engineers – SAE

Dr. Brown provides statistical consulting services related to defect investigations, reliability engineering, statistical modeling, data analysis, data visualization. His experience includes design and analysis of sampling studies, automotive crash and injury statistics, measurement system analysis, warranty claims, manufacturing data, medical devices, environmental data, health outcomes data. 

Dr. Brown works with engineers to design studies and analyze data to assess the condition of units in a population. Applications include construction materials, consumer products, motor vehicles, financial transactions, solar panels. His reports have involved data from engineering investigations, observational studies, accident and injury databases, warranty claims, complaint data, point-of-sale data. 

Dr. Brown has expertise in harvesting and cleaning large volumes of data files with various formats (Microsoft Word, txt, pdf, csv, Microsoft Excel), and gathering data through web scraping. He has expertise in textual analysis to identify conditions expressed in narratives. He has experience with NHTSA datasets including recalls, owner complaints, investigations, NASS CDS/CISS, NASS GES/CRSS, and FARS. He is highly proficient with statistical computing programs R, JMP, and SAS. He also has experience with MATLAB, Python, Weibull++, Minitab, and Tableau.

Before joining Exponent, Dr. Brown attended the University of Michigan where he served as a graduate student consultant at the center for statistical consultation and research (CSCAR). His thesis research is on the analysis of spatial data in a Gaussian framework.