Emmanuel Candès

Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a French statistician most well known for his contributions to the field of Compressed sensing and Statistical hypothesis testing. He is a professor of statistics and electrical engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics. Candès is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

Emmanuel Candès
Born (1970-04-27) 27 April 1970
NationalityFrench
Alma materStanford University
École Polytechnique
Known for Wavelet theory, Curvelets, Compressed sensing
SpouseChiara Sabatti
AwardsAlfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2001)
James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (2005)
Vasil A. Popov Prize (2006)
Alan T. Waterman Award (2006)
Information Theory Society Paper Award (2008)
George Pólya Prize (2010)
Collatz Prize (ICIAM) (2011)
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization (2012)
Dannie Heineman Prize (2013)
MacArthur Genius Grant (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Electrical engineering
InstitutionsStanford University
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorDavid Donoho
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