As a Statistician, his research interests include statistical data modeling for surveillance data, disease transmission models complex data models, network models, high performance computing, statistical programming, reproducible research methods and tool, and programming and analysis standardization.Redd’s Dissertation work was on paired functional data analysis. His current research focuses on surveillance models and the statistical issues related to inference from data originating in information extraction and natural language process. He is an active contributor to the R statistical programming software through several add-on packages.Redd received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.