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.