Prof. Emmanuel Jean Candès

Emmanuel 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. Emmanuel earned an MSc from the École Polytechnique, before joining Stanford for his PhD in Statistics. After his PhD in 1998, he was retained as an assistant professor of statistics. In 2006, he was  named the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology where he had moved to in 2000. He returned to Stanford in 2009 until now. Among his numerous awards an honors, Emmanuel is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow. His research interests include; compressive sensing, mathematical signal processing, computational harmonic analysis, statistics, scientific computing. Applications to the imaging sciences and inverse problems. Other topics of recent interest include theoretical computer science, mathematical optimization, and information theory.