Mathematician and statistician, Professor Sophie Dabo-Niang Ph.D is a professor who has done outreach to increase the status of African mathematicians.
The Senegalese/French woman was recently part of the Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference, which took place online and featured speakers including actuarial/finance lecturer Tolulope Fadina (University of Essex), Tosin Babasola (University of Bath), mathematician and former NFL player John Urschel (Harvard), Mathematically Uncensored podcast host Aris Winger (Georgia Gwinnett College), engineer Ejay Nsugbe (Nsugbe Research Labs), Nandi Leslie (Raytheon Technologies) and Franck Kalala Mutombo (University of Lubumbashi).
The event is a joint initiative between The British Society for the History of Mathematics, the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Isaac Newton Institute, the London Mathematical Society, and the Mathematical Association.
A statistician at the University of Lille, in France, she earned her PhD in 2002 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Having published articles on functional statistics, nonparametric and semi-parametric estimates of weakly independent processes, spatial statistics, and mathematical epidemiology, she serves as an editor of the journal Revista Colombiana de Estadística and is on the scientific committee of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA).
Academic Council Member of AIMS, Prof. Dabo-Niang has successfully supervised the doctoral theses of several students in Africa and, as of January 2021 she became a full professor at the University of Lille and is supervising and co-supervising multiple African students. She has also taught master's-level statistics courses, including in Senegal and 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.
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 and has also coordinated scientific events in Africa. In Senegal, she coordinated a CIMPA event and an event to encourage young girls in the mathematical sciences.
She serves as the chair of the Developing Countries Committee for the European Mathematical Society. Professor Sophie Dabo-Niang Ph.D is living proof that there is no limit to excellence for #WomenInSTEM.
Taking place in Germany, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum brought together laureates of the Abel Prize, Fields Medal and other prestigious maths and computer science awards. The event also invited hundreds of promising Ph.D students in maths and computer science to network and watch lectures by the laureates. Much of the conference was livestreamed online, with Twitter and blog coverage of the event (including some posts by others by Chalkdust team member/friend of the site Sophie Maclean).
