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.

Stephens has a PhD from Magdalen College, Oxford University where his advisor was Brian D.

Stephens conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Donnelly at the University of Oxford.

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