Emmanuel Candès

Emmanuel Candès is a Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He previously held the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professorship at Caltech. His work spans computational harmonic analysis, signal processing, and mathematical optimization, with applications to imaging sciences and inverse problems.

His research integrates statistics, information theory, and numerical analysis to address challenges in scientific computing and applied mathematics. Notably, he collaborated with Nobel Laureate W. E. Moerner in biomedical imaging contexts.

• 2006 Alan T. Waterman Medal
• 2005 James H. Wilkinson Prize
• 2008 Information Theory Society Paper Award
• 2010 George Pólya Prize
• 2011 Collatz Prize
• 2012 Lagrange Prize
• 2013 Dannie Heineman Prize
• 2014 Election to National Academy of Sciences
• 2014 Election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Candès has delivered over 50 plenary lectures at international conferences across mathematics, statistics, biomedical imaging, and solid-state physics, demonstrating interdisciplinary impact.