Sophie Dabo-Niang

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
Children4

Biography

Early life

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

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

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

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

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]

Books
  • 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

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

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

See also

References
  1. "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. 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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