Matthew Stephens

Matthew Stephens is a Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, with affiliations in the Department of Human Genetics and the College Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM). His research focuses on developing statistical methodologies at the intersection of Statistics and Genetics, particularly for analyzing large, complex datasets using Bayesian hierarchical models and high-dimensional statistical techniques.

• Research Areas: False discovery rates, sparsity, shrinkage, factor analysis, dimension reduction, clustering methods, and genomic data analysis.
• Open Science Advocacy: He emphasizes reproducibility and open research practices, exemplified by projects like the ash repository and the R package workflowr for sharing analyses.