Mila Nikolova (1962 – 20 June 2018) was a Bulgarian applied mathematician, known for her research in
image processing
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,
inverse problem
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s, and
compressed sensing
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.
Education and career
After working as a science journalist and engineer in Bulgaria, Nikolova completed a Ph.D. in 1995 in signal and image processing at the
University of Paris-Sud
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. In 2006, she earned a
habilitation
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in mathematics at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...
.
She did postdoctoral research with
Électricité de France
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, and then joined the faculty at
Paris Descartes University
Paris Descartes University (), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Descartes completely merg ...
in 1996. In 1999 she was given a position as senior research fellow at
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
, associated at first with the
École nationale supérieure des télécommunications
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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and since 2003 with the
École normale supérieure Cachan. She became a director of research at CNRS in 2009.
Recognition
Nikolova won the of the
French Academy of Sciences
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in 2010, "for the originality and depth of her research in mathematical image processing and in solving certain inverse problems".
The ''Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision'' has published a posthumous special issue in honor of Nikolova.
References
External links
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Home page
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1962 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Bulgarian mathematicians
21st-century Bulgarian mathematicians
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Bulgarian women mathematicians
20th-century French women mathematicians
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
21st-century French women mathematicians