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Matthew Stephens elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society!, May 10, 2023. Faculty accolade, December 30, 2019. Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and the College; Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Stephens Lab Overview. My lab works on a wide variety of problems at the interface of Statistics and Genetics. We often tackle problems where novel statistical methods are required, or can learn something new compared with existing approaches.
A new statistical method for haplotype reconstruction from population data. M Stephens, NJ Smith, P Donnelly. The American Journal of Human Genetics 68 (4), 978-989. , 2001. 8594. 2001. A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. IHM Consortium. Nature 449 (7164), 851.
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.
Nature Immunology research briefing. 2023. J Kang and M Stephens. Empirical Bayes covariance decomposition, and a solution to the multiple tuning Problem in sparse PCA. arXiv:2312.03274. Y Kim, W Wang, P Carbonetto and M Stephens.
May 22, 2023 · Matthew Stephens is a statistician and data scientist who has made groundbreaking contributions to the practice and applications of statistics in genetics. His research focuses on developing tractable approximations to complex inferential problems, combining innovative probabilistic models and computational methodology.
May 10, 2023 · Matthew Stephens, PhD, Ralph W. Gerard Professor of Statistics and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, an organization of many of the world's most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
