Professor Robin Evans

Professor of Statistical Science, Deputy Head of Department

Biographical Sketch

I received my PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2011, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Statistical Laboratory in Cambridge from 2011 to 2013.

Research Interests

My research is in understanding how multivariate statistical models – such as Bayesian network models, marginal models and latent variable models – can be used to learn about the world around us. In addition, I am interested in how these methods can be applied to epidemiology, medicine and the social sciences.

This work has led in various directions: finding implications of models that can be tested in data, and showing that no further constraints exist; determining whether quantities of scientific interest are identifiable; understanding when marginal models can be properly specified, simulated from, and fitted; and understanding when efficient model selection is possible. A particular area of interest recently has been simulating from marginal causal models, and applications to combining evidence from different types of study.

I am also interested in the mathematical and statistical properties of more general latent variable models, conditional independence, and model parametrizations.

Publications

Google Scholar

Xianya, X. and Evans, R. (1983) “DISCRETE TIME STOCHASTIC ADAPTIVE CONTROL FOR TIME VARYING SYSTEMS.”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1189–1193.

Broadfoot, A. and Evans, R. (1982) “PRACTICAL CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR AN INVERTER FED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE.”, in National Conference Publication Institution of Engineers Australia, pp. 126–129.

Betz, R. and Evans, R. (1982) “NON-LINEAR ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF A CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER FED INDUCTION MOTOR LINEAR LOAD CASE.”, in National Conference Publication Institution of Engineers Australia, pp. 85–90.

Webster, I. and Evans, R. (1982) “CONTROL OF A BI-DIRECTIONAL BRIDGE.”, in National Conference Publication Institution of Engineers Australia, pp. 100–104.

Ahmed, K. and Evans, R. (1982) “NEW BROADBAND ARRAY PROCESSOR.”, in IEE Conference Publication, pp. 448–452.

Evans, R. and Betz, R. (1982) “NEW RESULTS AND APPLICATIONS OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL TO CLASSES OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS.”, Ricerche Di Automatica, 13(2), pp. 277–297.

Ahmed, K. and Evans, R. (1982) “Robust signal and array processing”, IEE Proceedings F Communications Radar and Signal Processing, 129(4), pp. 297–302.

Evans, R. and Ahmed, K. (1982) “Robust adaptive array antennas”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 71(2), pp. 384–394.

Cook, B. and Evans, R. (1981) “APPLICATION OF MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS IN INDUSTRIAL VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE APPLICATIONS.”, in National Conference Publication Institution of Engineers Australia, pp. 133–136.

Cantoni, A., Evans, R. and Kwong, K. (1981) “Adaptive equalization algorithms for optimization of a generalized mean square cost”, Information Sciences, 24(1), pp. 23–42.