Amundson Lectures (2009)
Speaker: Emmanuel Candes
The Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford
About the Speaker: The 2008 Information Theory Society Paper Award recipient, Emmanuel Candes, received
his B.Sc. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 1993, and Ph.D. degree in
Statistics from Stanford University in 1998. He was a Roland and Maxine Linde Professor
of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech. Prior to joining Caltech, he
was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, 1998—2000. His research
interests are in computational harmonic analysis, multiscale analysis, approximation
theory, statistical estimation and detection with applications to the imaging sciences,
signal processing, scientific computing, inverse problems, as well as, theoretical
computer science, mathematical optimization, and information theory.
Dr. Candes received the Third Popov Prize in Approximation Theory and was selected
as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2001. He received the DOE Young Investigator
Award in 2002, and co-authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award of the European
Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP) in 2003. In 2005, he
was awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
by SIAM, and in 2006, he won the Alan T. Waterman Award, NSF’s highest honor. Currently
he is the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University.
For more information about the speaker, please visit: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~candes/
