Steven Neil Evans (born 12 August 1960) is an Australian-American statistician and mathematician, specializing in

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es.Steven N. Evans homepage at U.C. Berkeley
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Education and career

Evans was born,

Orange, New South Wales Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney on a great circle at an altitude of . Orange had an urban population of 41,920 at the 2021 Australia Census, 2021 Cens ...

. In 1982 he obtained his bachelor's degree from the

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and in 1987 his Ph.D. from the

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under Martin T. Barlow with thesis ''Local Properties of Markov Families and Stochastic Processes Indexed by a Totally Disconnected Field''. From 1987 to 1991 he was an assistant professor of statistics at the

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. In 1987–1989 he was a Whyburn Research Instructor in mathematics at the University of Virginia. In the department of statistics, UC Berkeley, he became an associate professor in 1991 and a full professor in 1995. In 1999 at UC Berkeley he was given a joint appointment as a professor in both mathematics and statistics, a position he now continues to hold. He was an associate editor from 1993 to 2000 for ''Stochastic Processes and their Applications'', from 1994 to 2000 for ''Annals of Probability'', and from 2001 to 2003 for ''Probability Theory and Related Fields''.

Honors and awards

In 1990 he was awarded the

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. For the academic year 1993–1994 he was awarded a Sloan Fellowship. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 1998 and a fellow of the

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in 2012. In 2002 he was a Medallion Lecturer at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics annual meeting in Banff. In 2010 he was an

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in Hyderabad. In 2016 he was elected to the

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Selected publications

* with T. P. Speed: * with Philip B. Stark: * with Jim Pitman and Anita Winter:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Steven Neil 1960 births Living people Australian statisticians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American statisticians University of Sydney alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Probability theorists People from Orange, New South Wales