About Me

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at George Mason University. I started in August 2022.

Email: nrios4@gmu.edu

See my CV here: Link to CV (Updated September 1 2025) 

I am interested in several research areas in Statistics:

• Experimental design in the presence of real-world constraints

• Computational Statistics and High-Dimensional Data

• Compositional Data Analysis

• Functional data analysis and Gaussian process modeling

This diverse body of work supports many fields, especially those with applications to chemical engineering and pharmaceutical industries.

I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics at Penn State in 2022. My dissertation was focused on designing optimal mixture experiments. In these experiments, multiple reagents and chemicals are mixed to produce a response. The dissertation addressed the practical issue of finding optimal experiments when the order of addition of the components was important. I developed novel algorithms for finding relatively cheap and efficient experiments that allow researchers to estimate the optimal mixture and order settings.