Oxford statistics professor Robin Evans, causal inference scholar, dies at Oxford
yudapearl · x · 2026-11-08
Oxford's Department of Statistics announced the death of Professor Robin Evans on November 3, 2026, following an illness. Judea Pearl and other peers mourned his passing.
- Evans studied mathematics at Cambridge, earned his PhD in statistics at the University of Washington in 2011 under Thomas Richardson, joined Oxford in 2013, became Professor of Statistical Science in 2023, and held the University's Professorship in Statistics plus the Deputy Head role at the time of his death.
- He made major contributions to the mathematical foundations of graphical models and causal inference, notably on unobserved variables and selection bias, advancing latent-variable models, nested Markov models, and the constraints causal structures impose on observable data.
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