Oxford Professor Robin Evans, Causal Inference Scholar, Dies After Illness
murat_kocaoglu_ · x · 2026-11-06
The Oxford Department of Statistics announced the death of Professor Robin Evans on 3 November 2026 following an illness. A member of Oxford since 2013, he held the University Professorship in Statistics and was Deputy Head of Department. He made foundational contributions to graphical models and causal inference, notably on unobserved variables, selection bias, latent-variable and nested Markov models. Researchers in the community shared tributes to his dedication and influence.
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