Matthew Stephens (statistician)
Matthew Stephens | ||
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Academic advisor Peter Donnelly | | |
| Notable students | John Novembre | |
Matthew Stephens FRS (born 1970) is a Bayesian statistician and professor in the departments of human genetics and statistics at the University of Chicago. He is known for the Li and Stephens model as an efficient coalescent.
Education
Stephens has a PhD from Magdalen College, Oxford University where his advisor was Brian D. Ripley.[1] He then went on to work with Peter Donnelly as a postdoctoral researcher.
Career
Stephens conducted
population structure and estimating individual admixture.[2] He then went on to develop the influential Li and Stephens model as an efficient model for linkage disequilibrium.[3]
Awards
Stephens was awarded the Guy Medal (bronze) in 2006.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.[5]
Notes
- ^ Stephens, Matthew. "Stephens Lab". stephenslab.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- PMID 27729489.
- PMID 27384022.
- ^ "The Royal Statistical Society - Guy Medal in Bronze". www.rss.org.uk. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ "Matthew Stephens". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
