Sophie Dabo-Niang (née Dabo) is a Senegalese and French mathematician, statistician, and professor[1] who has done outreach to increase the status of African mathematicians.
Sophie Dabo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Senegal |
| Occupation(s) | Mathematician, professor |
| Children | 4 |
Biography
editEarly life
editSophie was encouraged to pursue mathematics by her parents and her teachers. She knew she wanted to study mathematics early in high school.[1]
Education
editSophie Dabo-Niang earned her PhD in 2002 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.[1] Sophie enjoys passing on her passion for mathematics to her students.[1]
Marriage and children
editAs of 2016, Dabo-Niang is married.[1] She had 3 children between starting her master's degree and finishing her doctoral thesis, and has 4 children in total.[1][2] She has said that balancing parenting and her mathematics career has been a challenge, and she credits her persistence to her desire to succeed and the support of her husband.[1]
Mathematical work
editDabo-Niang has published articles on functional statistics, nonparametric and semi-parametric estimates of weakly independent processes, spatial statistics, and mathematical epidemiology.[3]
Dabo-Niang serves as an editor of the journal Revista Colombiana de Estadística[4][5] and is on the scientific committee of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA).[6]
Professorship and developing country outreach
editSophie Dabo-Niang has successfully supervised the doctoral theses of several students in Africa.[7] As of January 2021 she is a full professor at the University of Lille and is supervising and co-supervising multiple African students.[1] She has taught master's-level statistics courses, including in Senegal.[1]
She introduced the spatial statistics subfields to a university in Dakar, Senegal, and supervised the first Senegalese and Mauritanian doctoral students focusing on the field. She often participates on thesis juries in Africa.[1]
Dabo-Niang has coordinated scientific events in Africa. In Senegal, she coordinated a CIMPA event and an event to encourage young girls in the mathematical sciences.[1] She serves as the chair of the Developing Countries Committee for the European Mathematical Society.[5][8]
Selected publications
editBooks
edit- Functional and Operatorial Statistics. Contributions to Statistics. Sophie Dabo-Niang, Frédéric Ferraty (eds.). Physica-Verlag Heidelberg. 2008. ISBN 978-3-7908-2061-4. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Mathematical Modeling of Random and Deterministic Phenomena. Solym Mawaki Mamou-Abi, Sophie Dabo-Niang, Jean-Jacques Salone (eds.). ISTE, Wiley. 2020-02-01. ISBN 978-1-78630-454-4. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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Articles
edit- Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Rhomari, Noureddine (2003-01-01). "Estimation non paramétrique de la régression avec variable explicative dans un espace métrique". Comptes Rendus Mathematique. 336 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1016/S1631-073X(02)00012-2. ISSN 1631-073X. S2CID 122151527.
- Dabo-Niang, Sophie (2007). "Kernel Regression Estimation for Continuous Spatial Processes". Mathematical Methods of Statistics. 16 (4): 298–317. doi:10.3103/S1066530707040023. S2CID 121410227.
- Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Ferraty, Frédéric; Vieu, Philippe (2007-06-15). "On the using of modal curves for radar waveforms classification". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 51 (10): 4878–4890. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.012. ISSN 0167-9473.
- Chebana, Fateh; Dabo‐Niang, Sophie; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2012). "Exploratory functional flood frequency analysis and outlier detection". Water Resources Research. 48 (4). Bibcode:2012WRR....48.4514C. doi:10.1029/2011WR011040. ISSN 1944-7973.
- Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Yao, Anne-Françoise (2013-01-01). "Kernel spatial density estimation in infinite dimension space". Metrika. 76 (1): 19–52. doi:10.1007/s00184-011-0374-4. ISSN 1435-926X. S2CID 121408701.
Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
editThe African Women in Mathematics Association has profiled Dabo-Niang. She was honored by Femmes et Mathématiques in 2015.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Sophie Dabo | African Women in Mathematics Association". Retrieved 2021-01-14.
- ^ Sciences & Coundefined (Director) (2017-03-22). Egalité Hommes/Femmes au cœur des laboratoires scientifiques. Event occurs at 2:50. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ "Sophie DABO Contact, Faculty Profile - Université de Lille". Université de Lille. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ "Rev.Colomb.Estad. - Editorial board". www.scielo.org.co. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ a b Vauzeilles, Jacqueline (2015). Rapport d'activité du LEM (PDF). Lille Économie Management. p. 114.
- ^ "Executive Team | CIMPA". www.cimpa.info. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ "Catalogue SUDOC". www.sudoc.abes.fr. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ nickgill (2018-02-20). "Members". EMS-CDC. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ "Mathématiciennes africaines Meeting Agenda" (Professional Organization). FEMMES ET MATHÉMATIQUES. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
External links
edit- personal website
- podcast recording of her workshop on "Functional estimation in high dimensional data : Application to classification"
- Sophie Dabo-Niang publications indexed by Google Scholar