Emmanuel Candes - Conférencier invité

Emmanuel Candes is a Professor of Mathematics, a Professor of Statistics, a Professor of Electrical Engineering (by courtesy) and a member of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. He is also the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (on leave).

He received the Ph.D. degree in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis and multiscale analysis, mathematical optimization, statistical estimation and detection with applications to the imaging sciences, signal processing, scientific computing, and inverse problems.

Professor Candes received numerous awards, most notably the 2006 Alan T. Waterman Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation and which recognizes the achievements of scientists who are no older than 35, or not more than seven years beyond their doctorate. Other awards include the 2008 Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2005 James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing awarded by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the 2010 George Polya Prize awarded by SIAM.

He has given over 40 plenary lectures at major international conferences.

Detailed information can be found on his homepage.