CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Steven Neil Evans
Address: Department of Statistics, University of California, 367 Evans Hall
#3860, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860
ph: (510) 642-2777
fax: (510) 642-7892
email: evans@stat.Berkeley.EDU
URL: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/evans
Date and place of birth: August 12, 1960 Orange, Australia
Nationality: Australian and U.S. dual citizenship
Tertiary Education:
1979-1982 Bachelor of Science (Honours I),
University of Sydney
1983-1986 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, supervisor M.T.
Barlow, graduated May 2, 1987
Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes:
1979-1981 Gowrie Trust Fund Scholarship
1980 & 1981 John Irvine
Hunter Scholarship
1983 University Medal in Mathematical
Statistics
1983-1986 Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
Scholarship
1983-1986 Research Scholarship and Studentship, Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge
1990 Rollo Davidson Prize
1991 Presidential Young Investigator Award
1993 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
1997 G. de B. Robinson Prize of the Canadian
Mathematical Society
1998 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical
Statistics
1998 Dobson Fellow, U.C. Berkeley
2002 Miller Research Professor, U.C. Berkeley
2002 Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical
Statistics
2005 Presidential Chair Teaching Fellow, U.C.
Berkeley
2007+2008 Visiting Fellow, Mathematical Sciences
Institute, Australian National University
2009 Astor Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford
2011 Birnbaum Lecturer, University of Washington
2012 Fellow, American Mathematical Society
2016 Member, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.)
2017 Distinguished Visitor, Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, University of Singapore
2018 Hotelling Lecturer, University of North Carolina
Employment and Teaching Experience
1979-1982 Full-time Bursar, Commonwealth Banking Corporation
1983-1987 Research Graduate, Commonwealth Banking Corporation of
Australia. Promoted 1987, Manager Research and Analysis.
1987-1991 Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of California,
Berkeley.
1987-1989 Whyburn Research Instructor, Mathematics, University of
Virginia.
1991-1995 Associate Professor with tenure, Statistics, University of
California, Berkeley.
1995-present Professor, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.
1999-present Professor, Mathematics (joint appointment), University of California,
Berkeley.
2005-present Core faculty, Center for Computational Biology,
University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Invited Lectures
1988 Seminar on Stochastic Processes (Gainesville,
Florida), plenary speaker
1989 Southern Californian Probability Meeting, U.C.
Irvine (Irvine, California)
1992 Twenty First Conference on Stochastic Processes
and their Applications, Bernoulli Society (North York, Canada), plenary speaker
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques
(Montreal, Canada) Workshop - "Topics in probability and Lie groups:
boundary theory" (course of 5 talks).
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques
(Montreal, Canada) Workshop - "Measure-valued processes, stochastic
partial differential equations and interacting systems."
Fourteenth Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern University
(Evanston, Illinois)
1993 Joint Statistical Meeting (ASA, Biometric
Society, IMS), (San Francisco, California)
First World Congress on Branching Processes (unable to attend due
to health) 1994 International Centre for
Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh, U.K.) "Stochastic Partial Differential
Equations”
Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Probability and
Statistics" (unable to attend due to health)
Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Probability Theory
on Groups and Related Structures"
1996 World Congress of the Bernoulli Society,
(Vienna, Austria)
1997 International Centre for Mathematical
Sciences (Edinburgh) "Instructional Meeting on Stochastic Partial
Differential Equations"
1999 Fields Institute (Toronto, Canada)
Workshop - "Interactive Measure-Valued Processes"
Southern California Probability Meeting, University of Southern
California (Los Angeles, California)
2000 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Bristol, U.K.) -
Microsoft Workshop at BRIMS - "Random Matrices",
AMS Western Section Meeting, (San Francisco, California), plenary
speaker
2001 MSRI (Berkeley, California) Summer School -
"Modern Signal Processing"
Erwin Schroedinger Institute (Vienna,
Austria) Workshop - "Random Walks and Geometry"
Twenty Seventh Conference on Stochastic Processes and their
Applications, Bernoulli Society (Cambridge U.K.), plenary speaker
2002 New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute, Eighth Summer
Workshop, (Napier, New Zealand)
Medallion Lecturer, IMS Annual Meeting, (Banff, Canada)
2003 Oberwolfach
Mathematics Institute "Branching Processes"
Warwick Mathematics Institute, "Stochastic Partial
Differential Equations and Related Topics" (2 talks)
Banff International Research Station, workshop on stochastic
differential equations in honour of John Walsh
2004 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
(Cambridge U.K), "Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of
Languages"
Frankfurt University, "Workshop on Random Discrete
Structures"
German Mathematical Society annual meeting (Heidelberg, Germany)
2005 Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
"Fourth Symposium on Levy Processes"
Weierstrass Insitute (Berlin),
"Workshop on Random Spatial Models from Physics and Biology"
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard, "Mathematical
Modeling and Language Diversification Workshop"
St. Flour (France) Probability Summer School (10 talks)
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Bielefeld, Germany),
"Microscopic Stochastic Dynamics in Biology and Chemistry"
Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Mathematical
Population Genetics"
2006 Princeton, New Jersey, Seminar on Stochastic
Processes, plenary speaker
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh, U.K),
“Workshop on Mathematical Population Genetics”
Banff International Research Station, “Workshop on Mathematical
and Computational Approaches to Linguistic Phylogeny”
Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), 2nd Cornell
Probability summer school
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), “International
Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications”
50th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society
(Sydney, Australia), plenary speaker
2007 Australian National University
Mathematical Sciences Institute (Canberra, Australia), Visiting Fellow, lecture
for the general public
Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Stanford
University (Palo Alto, California), “Workshop on Alternative Approaches to
Language Classification”
2008 RWTH, (Aachen, Germany), 8th German
Open Conference on Probability and Statistics, plenary speaker
Erwin Schroedinger Institute (Vienna,
Austria), 15th Anniversary Celebrations, plenary
speaker
Australian National University Mathematical Sciences Institute
(Canberra, Australia), Visiting Fellow, lecture for the general
public
2009 Oberwolfach
Mathematics Institute, "Random Trees"
University of Utah (Salt Lake City), “Frontier Probability Days”
Columbia-Princeton Probability Day
University of Oxford, Astor Visiting Lecturer
EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), academic visitor
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques
(Marseille – Luminy, France), “Probabilistic Models
in Evolutionary Biology”
2010 Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK),
“Workshop on Stochastic Networks”
Australian Academy of Science (Canberra), “Science at the Shine
Dome Symposium on Genomics and Mathematics”
University of Colorado (Boulder), “Advances in Superprocesses
and Nonlinear PDEs”
University of Warwick, Probability at Warwick Young Researchers
Workshop (5 talks)
University of Warwick, “Orthogonal Polynomials, Applications in
Statistics and Stochastic Processes”
International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India
Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting
2011 Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
National University of Singapore, “Probability and Discrete Mathematics in
Mathematical Biology” (5 talks)
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, “New Questions in Probability
Theory Arising in Biological Systems”
Banff International Research Station, “Foundations of Stochastic
Analysis”
Birnbaum Lecture, University of Washington
2012 Mathematical Biosciences Institute, “Spatial
Models of Macro and Micro Systems”
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques
(Marseille – Luminy, France), “Probability,
Population Genetics and Evolution”
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Bielefeld, Germany),
“Stochastic Dynamics: Mathematical Theory and Applications”
Rhein-Main-Kolloquium Stochastik, Goethe-Universitaet
(Frankfurt, Germany)
Courant Institute, New York University, “Random Structures and
Limit Objects: A conference in honor of the 60th birthday
of David Aldous”
Thirty Fourth Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern
University (Evanston, Illinois)
2013 Joint German Polish Conference on Probability
Theory and Mathematical Statistics (Torun, Poland)
Long term visitor, DFG Priority Programme
Probabilistic Structures in Evolution, talks in Cologne, Essen, Erlangen,
Frankfurt, Hannover
Institut Mittag-Leffler
(Stockholm, Sweden), Olav Kallenberg Workshop,
Centre de Récherches Mathématiques
(Montreal, Canada), “Random Trees”
Centre de Récherches Mathématiques
(Montreal, Canada), “Coalescent Theory: New Developments and Applications”
2014 Simons Institute for the Theory of
Computing (Berkeley), "Evolutionary Biology and the Theory of
Computing"
2015 Long term visitor, DFG Priority Programme Probabilistic Structures in Evolution, talks in
Frankfurt, Giessen
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques
(Marseille – Luminy, France), “Probability and
Biological Evolution”
London Mathematical Society and the Clay Mathematics Institute Research School (Oxford University) “Developments in Modern
Probability”
University of Warwick, “Models and Inference in Population
Genetics”
2016 Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Marseille – Luminy,
France), "Random Trees and Maps: Probabilistic and Combinatorial
Aspects"
2017 National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting , Research Briefing
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of
Singapore, Distinguished Visitor lecture for the general
public
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of
Singapore, “Genealogies of Interacting Particle Systems”
2018 University of North Carolina, Hotelling Lectures
SPP Summer School, “Probabilistic Structures in Evolution”
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques
(Marseille – Luminy, France), “Probability and
Biological Evolution”
Research Support
1988 - 1989 NSF grant at University of Virginia
1990 - 1991 NSF grant at University of California
1991 - 1997 Presidential Young Investigator Award
1993 - 1995 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
1994 - 1997 NSERC Canada Collaborative Projects Grant,
"Stochastic Partial Differential Equations"
1997 - 2000 NSF grant at University of California
1997 NSA grant at Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute, Berkeley
1999 NSF grant jointly at MSRI, Berkeley and Fields
Institute, Toronto
2000-2003 NSF grant at University of California
2004-2008 NSF grant at University of California (no-cost
extension to 2009)
2006-2007 Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics
(U.C. Berkeley) grant
2007-2008 Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics
(U.C. Berkeley) grant
2009-2014 NSF grant at University of California (no-cost
extension to 2015)
2015-2018 NSF grant at University of California (no-cost
extension to 2019)
2016-2018 NIH grant at University of California (co-PI, Yun Song PI)
Professional Service
1993 - 2000 Associate Editor Stochastic
Processes and their Applications
1994 - 2000 Associate Editor Annals
of Probability
1997 - 1998 Co-chair, special year on Stochastic Analysis,
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
1998 - present Co-organizer, Seminar
on Stochastic Processes
2001 – 2003 Associate Editor Probability
Theory and Related Fields
2003 – 2016 Core Editor, Probability
Surveys
2006 - 2010 Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellowship Committee
2011 - 2013 Scientific organizing committee, Thirty Sixth
Conference on Stochastic Processes and their
Applications
2010 - present Advisory
board, Forschungsschwerpunkt Mathematisierung, University of
Bielefeld
2011 - 2014 Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Council
2012 – present Scientific Advisory
Board, Banff International Research Station
2013 Co-organizer, Recent Tends in Stochastic
Analysis Conference, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
2014 Co-organizer
Workshop on New Directions in Probabilistic Models of Evolution, Simons Institute
for the Theory of Computing
2018—present Scientific
Advisory Board, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
2019 Scientific Advisory Board, Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistic
2020 Mathematics
Advisory Board, Samsung Science and Technology Foundation
Graduate Students
1993 Neil Michael O'Connell, Statistics, PhD, The genealogy of
branching processes
1994 Joachim Alfons Rebholz, Mathematics,
PhD, Planar diffusions
with applications to mathematical finance
1995 Jonathan Widgoff
Shapiro, Statistics, PhD, Capacity of Brownian trace and level sets
1999, Steven Hwa Lin, Statistics, PhD, On stochastic models of
interest rates with jumps
1999 Ezra Vitali Nahum, Statistics, PhD, On the pricing of lookback options
1999 Xiaowen Zhou, Statistics, PhD, Exchangeability, continuum-sites stepping-stone models, and
enumeration and construction of phylogenetic invariants
1999 Diego Garcia, Statistics, MA, A Monte Carlo method for pricing American options
2001 Michael Ryan Roberts, Statistics, MA, Parameter estimation
in hidden Markov models
2002 Maxwell T. Pak, Statistics, MA, Decentralized price
setting in replica economies
2008 Ron Peled, Statistics, PhD, Global
irregularities for Poisson processes - gravitational allocation and rough
isometries
2008 Aubrey Irving Clayton, Mathematics, PhD, Mutation-selection
balance for polynomial selection costs and matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials
2009 Richard Hwa Liang, Statistics, PhD, Two continuum-sites stepping stone models in population genetics with delayed
coalescence
2009 Peter Lochhead Ralph, Statistics,
PhD, Most recent common ancestors, genetic inheritance,
stochastic gene transcription, and Brownian motion on disconnected sets: a
probabilistic analysis of a few models
2010 Partha Sarathi Dey, Statistics, PhD, Contributions to
Stein's method and some limit theorems in probability
2010 Arnab Sen, Statistics, PhD, Spectra of random
trees, coalescing non-Brownian particles and geometric influences of Boolean
functions
2010 Eva Vivalt, Mathematics, MA, Modelling Gaussian fields and geostatistical data using Gaussian Markov random
fields
2012 Tatyana Mikhailovna
Gordeeva, Statistics, MA, Stochastic equations on projective systems of groups
2013 Alexandru Hening,
Mathematics, PhD, Two Models of Default from Finance and a Model of Invasion from Ecology
2013 Joshua Simon
Abramson, Statistics, PhD, Some Minorants and Majorants of Random Walks and Lévy Processes
2014 Benjamin Tsou, Mathematics, PhD, Eigenvalue Distributions of Symmetric Group Representations
2015 Eric Stephen Wayman, Mathematics,
PhD, A Skew-product decomposition of diffusions on a
manifold equipped with a group action, A Lorentz model with variable density in
a conservative force field, and Reconstruction of a manifold from the intrinsic
metric of an associated Markov chain
2017 Hye Soo Choi, Statistics, PhD, The Doob-Martin compactification of Markov chains of growing
words
2018 Benson Au, Mathematics, PhD, Rigid structures in traffic
probability: with a view toward random matrices
2018 Maria Guadalupe Martinez, Mathematics, MA, A novel mathematical
approach to understand the dynamics of sexual violence in the United States
2019 Chen Shen, Mathematics, PhD, Fluctuation analysis of order
positions under general cancellations,
Present Nicholas Bhattacharya, Mathematics, PhD; Ella Hiesmayr,
Statistics, PhD; Adam Jaffe, Statistics, PhD; Tyler Maltba,
Statistics, PhD; Mehdi Ouaki, Statistics, PhD