Evan earned his B.Sc. degree in Cognitive Science from UCLA in 1996. From there, he went on to receive both a M.A. in 1998 and Ph.D. in 2003 from UCLA as a Cognitive Psychology major with a minor in Behavioral Neuroscience. Evan's doctoral dissertation examined the mental processes that allow for accurate shape perception of moving, partially occluded objects. He was part of the Visual Attention Lab from 2003 to 2007.