Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a French statistician most well known for his contributions to the field of

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and

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. He is a professor of

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and

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(by courtesy) at

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, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics. Candès is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

Academic biography

Candès earned a MSc from the

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in 1993.Speaker bio
from NIPS 2008. He did his postgraduate studies at

Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and th ...

, where he earned a PhD in statistics in 1998 under the supervision of

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, and immediately joined the Stanford faculty as an assistant professor of statistics. He moved to the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

in 2000, where in 2006 he was named the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He returned to Stanford in 2009.

Research

Candès' early research concerned nonlinear approximation theory. In his PhD thesis, he developed generalizations of

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s called

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s and ridgelets that were able to capture higher order structures in signals. This work has had significant impact in

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and multiscale analysis, and earned him the Popov prize in approximation theory in 2001.The Vasil A. Popov Prize: Emmanuel Candes, 2001, Third Prize Recipient
Mathematics Department, University of South Carolina. In 2006, Candès wrote a paper with Australian-American mathematician

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that spearheaded the field of

: the recovery of sparse signals from a few carefully constructed, and seemingly random measurements. Many researchers have since contributed to this field, which has introduced the idea of a camera that can record pictures while needing only one sensor.

Awards and honors

In 2001 Candès received an

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

. He was awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 2005. In 2006, he received the Vasil A. Popov Prize as well as the

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's highest honor: the

Alan T. Waterman Award The Alan T. Waterman Award, named after Alan Tower Waterman, is the United States's highest honorary award for scientists no older than 40, or no more than 10 years past receipt of their Ph.D. It is awarded on a yearly basis by the National Scienc ...

for research described by the NSF as "nothing short of revolutionary". In 2010 Candès and

were awarded the

George Pólya Prize The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has three prizes named after George Pólya: the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, established in 2013; the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics, established in 1969, ...

. In 2011, Candès was awarded the ICIAM Collatz Prize. Candès has also received the Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization, awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was also presented with the Dannie Heineman Prize by the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen in 2013. In 2014 he was elected to the

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. In 2015 he received the

George David Birkhoff Prize The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in honor of George David Birkhoff (1884–1944). It is currently aw ...

of the AMS / SIAM. He is also a fellow of SIAM. In 2017 Candès received the MacArthur Fellowship for exploring the limits of signal recovery and matrix completion from incomplete data sets with implications for high-impact applications in multiple fields. He was elected to the 2018 class of

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s of the

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. In 2020, Candès was awarded the

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for Technical and Scientific Research.

Personal life

Candès is married to Stanford statistician Chiara Sabatti.

References

External links

Candès' web page
at Stanford.
Google scholar profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Candes, Emmanuel J. 1970 births Living people 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians California Institute of Technology faculty École Polytechnique alumni Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics French statisticians MacArthur Fellows Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Scientists from Paris Sloan Research Fellows Stanford University alumni Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty Mathematical statisticians