Support l'X Emmanuel Candès (X90), co-winner of the 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
Emmanuel Candès à gauche, Camillo De Lellis, à droite
The 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences was jointly awarded to Emmanuel Candès (X90), holder of the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University in the United States, and to Camillo De Lellis, holder of the IBM von Neumann Chair at the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study, in the United States.
The two researchers are being honored, respectively, for their groundbreaking contributions to the use of advanced techniques derived from mathematical analysis to rigorously understand, on the one hand, applied problems in information theory, signal processing, and statistics, and, on the other hand, the study of singularities in geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics.
Born in 1970 in Paris, Emmanuel Candès earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. After serving as an assistant professor of statistics at Stanford (1998–2000), he joined the California Institute of Technology in 2000, where he was successively appointed lecturer, associate professor, and then professor from 2000 to 2006, as well as holder of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Chair in Applied and Computational Mathematics (2006–2011).
He returned to Stanford in 2009 as a professor of mathematics and statistics. He served as chair of the Department of Statistics (2016–2018) and has held the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics (since 2012).
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Shaw Prizes are a series of scientific awards presented annually in Hong Kong since 2004 by the Shaw Foundation. Sometimes referred to as the “Asian Nobel Prizes,” they honor scientists in three fields: astronomy, biological and medical sciences, and mathematics.