Emmanuel Candès receives the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
The 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Emmanuel Candès in recognition of seminal contributions at the intersection of pure and applied mathematics that provide rigorous and useful mathematical frameworks to solve practical problems in information processing. He joins colleague David Donoho in securing this profound honor, and we are elated to announce it!
This year's prize is awarded in equal shares to Professor Candès and Camillo De Lellis, IBM von Neumann Professor at the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, "for their breakthrough contributions to the use of deep techniques from mathematical analysis to rigorously understand applied problems in information theory, signal processing and statistics on the one hand, and to the study of singularities in geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics on the other."
The Shaw Prize is an international award dedicated to honoring individuals currently active in their respective fields and who have achieved distinguished and significant advances. Three annual awards, the Prize in Astronomy, the Prize in Science and Medicine, and the Prize in Mathematical Sciences, were established under the auspices of Run Run Shaw in November 2002 with a selection committee managed and administered by the Shaw Prize Foundation based in Hong Kong.