Steven N. Evans

Steven N. Evans is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the Department of Statistics and the Center for Computational Biology. With over three decades of service since 1987, his work bridges probability theory, stochastic processes, and their applications in mathematical biology, computational genetics, and phylogenetics.

His research spans:

• Probability on Algebraic Structures, including random matrices and local fields.
• Measure-Valued Processes and coalescent models in population genetics.
• Phylogenetic Inference in historical linguistics and ecology.
• Stochastic Models for gene expression, fitness landscapes, and mutation-selection balance.
• Markov Processes and their applications in phylodynamics.

Recent publications highlight his contributions to phylogenetic networks, Frechet mean sets, and Levy process analysis, with keywords spanning Probability, Computational Biology, and Population Genetics. He has mentored 10 PhD students, including Boyan Xu (2024) and Nicholas Bhattacharya (2022). His email is evans@stat.berkeley.edu.