Biography.guide
Home › People › Statistician › Michael D. Escobar
Portrait of Michael D. Escobar

Michael D. Escobar

Researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-9055-4709

Don't just read it — keep itBiographies to ownE-book · Audio · Video From $7 →

About Michael D. Escobar

Michael D. Escobar was a statistician.

Michael David Escobar is an American biostatistician and professor in the Biostatistics Division at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is known for work on Bayesian nonparametrics and mixture models.

Education and career Escobar earned a degree in mathematics at Tufts University in 1981 followed by a doctorate in statistics at Yale University in 1988 under the supervision of John Hartigan. Between 1990 and 1994, he was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Escobar subsequently joined the University of Toronto faculty, where he became a tenured professor in the Biostatistics Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and held a cross-appointment in the Department of Statistical Sciences. He has taught the graduate course Applied Bayesian Methods at Toronto. In 2012/13, he received the Robin Badgley Award for Teaching Excellence (Open). In 2015, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Research University of Toronto sources describe Escobar's research as focusing on computation for Dirichlet process models in nonparametric Bayesian statistics, mixture models for heterogeneous populations, psychiatric applications, and broader statistical work in the medical, biological, and public health sciences.

Selected works

Biography shop

Don’t just read it —
keep it.

Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.

  • E-book
  • Audio
  • Video
Browse the shop — from $7

Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free

Important facts

Occupation
Education
Yale University
Employers
University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University
Awards
Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Savage Award
Also known as
Michael D Escobar, M. D. Escobar, M.D. Escobar, M D Escobar, MD Escobar, Michael David Escobar

Frequently asked questions

Who was Michael D. Escobar?

researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-9055-4709

What was Michael D. Escobar's occupation?

Michael D. Escobar was a statistician.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Michael D. Escobar

· Wikidata: Q61013317

· DBpedia: Michael D. Escobar

Cite this page

APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Michael D. Escobar. https://biography.guide/michael-d-escobar/

MLA: "Michael D. Escobar." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/michael-d-escobar/.

Chicago: "Michael D. Escobar." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/michael-d-escobar/.

Data last updated: 2026-09-20 · Spot an error? Report a correction.

Page generated 2026-09-27 05:21 UTC