Matthew Stephens (statistician)

Matthew Stephens
Alma mater	Magdalen College University of Oxford
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2023)
Academic career
Institutions	University of Chicago University of Oxford
Thesis	Bayesian Methods for Mixtures of Normal Distributions
Doctoral advisor	Brian D. Ripley
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.