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Michael Schwob

Assistant Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics - University of Texas at Austin (2025)
  • B.S. in Mathematics - University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2021)

 

Awards & Honors

  • Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2021-2025)
  • Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship, UT Austin (2021-2025)
  • Bartroff Family Award for Research Excellence, UT Austin (2025)
  • EnviBayes Student Paper Competition Winner, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2023)
  • Best Honors Thesis, UNLV (2021) 
  • SDS 315 – Statistical Thinking (UT)
  • NSF Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Ecologists (Colorado State University) 

Interests

  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Spatio-Temporal Statistics
  • Compositional and Directional Data Analysis
  • Agent-Based Modeling

Current Applications

  •  Landscape Genomics and Landscape Ecology
  • Bioacoustic Data Analysis
  • Invasive Species Dynamics
  • Spatial Epidemiology and Vector-Borne Diseases
  • Microbiomics, Ancient DNA (aDNA), and Environmental DNA (eDNA)

 

  • MR Schwob, Y Duan, B Cantoni, B Flores-López, SG Walker. (2025). Exercises in Statistical Reasoning, Chapman & Hall/CRC.
  • MR Schwob, MB Hooten, V Narasimhan. (2024). "Composite dyadic models for spatio-temporal data," Biometrics
  • MB Hooten, MR Schwob, DS Johnson, JS Ivan. (2024). "Geostatistical capture-recapture models," Spatial Statistics.
  • MR Schwob, MB Hooten, T McDevitt-Galles. (2023). "Dynamic population models with temporal preferential sampling to infer phenology," Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics
  • MB Hooten, MR Schwob, DS Johnson, JS Ivan. (2023). "Multistage hierarchical capture-recapture models," Environmetrics.
  • MB Hooten, C Wikle, MR Schwob. (2020). "Statistical implementations of agent-based demographic models," International Statistical Review.
  • MR Schwob, A Dempsey, F Zhan, J Zhan, A Mehmood. (2020). "Robust multimodal heartbeat detection using hybrid neural networks," IEEE Access.
  • MR Schwob, J Zhan, A Dempsey. (2019). "Modeling cell communication with time-dependent signaling hypergraphs," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Michael Schwob

Assistant Professor

250 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, Virginia
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