Matthew StephensFRS (born 1970) is aBayesian statistician and professor in the departments of human genetics and statistics at theUniversity of Chicago. He is known for the Li and Stephens model as an efficient coalescent.
Stephens has a PhD fromMagdalen College, Oxford University where his advisor wasBrian D. Ripley.[1] He then went on to work withPeter Donnelly as a postdoctoral researcher.
Stephens conductedpostdoctoral research withPeter Donnelly at the University of Oxford. It was there that he developed the Structure computer program, along withJonathan Pritchard, which is used for determiningpopulation structure and estimating individualadmixture.[2] He then went on to develop the influential Li and Stephens model as an efficient model forlinkage disequilibrium.[3]
Stephens was awarded theGuy Medal (bronze) in 2006.[4] He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 2023.[5]
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