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Sophie Dabo-Niang

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Sophie Dabo
Born
Senegal
Occupation(s)Mathematician, professor
Children4

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.

Biography

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Early life

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Sophie was encouraged to pursue mathematics by her parents and her teachers. She knew she wanted to study mathematics early in high school.[1]

Education

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Sophie 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

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As 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

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Dabo-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

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Sophie 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

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Books

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  • 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

Articles

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Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

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The African Women in Mathematics Association has profiled Dabo-Niang. She was honored by Femmes et Mathématiques in 2015.[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Sophie Dabo | African Women in Mathematics Association". Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  2. ^ Sciences & Coundefined (Director) (2017-03-22). Egalité Hommes/Femmes au cœur des laboratoires scientifiques. Event occurs at 2:50. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  3. ^ "Sophie DABO Contact, Faculty Profile - Université de Lille". Université de Lille. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  4. ^ "Rev.Colomb.Estad. - Editorial board". www.scielo.org.co. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  5. ^ a b Vauzeilles, Jacqueline (2015). Rapport d'activité du LEM (PDF). Lille Économie Management. p. 114.
  6. ^ "Executive Team | CIMPA". www.cimpa.info. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  7. ^ "Catalogue SUDOC". www.sudoc.abes.fr. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  8. ^ nickgill (2018-02-20). "Members". EMS-CDC. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  9. ^ "Mathématiciennes africaines Meeting Agenda" (Professional Organization). FEMMES ET MATHÉMATIQUES. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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