Matthew Stephens (statistician)

Matthew Stephens (born 1970) is a Bayesian statistician and professor in the departments of Human Genetics and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Stephens has a PhD from Oxford University where his advisor was Brian D. Ripley, and he worked with Peter Donnelly as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses mostly on statistical applications in genetics.

Stephens was awarded the Guy Medal (Bronze) in 2006.