Karin Schnass (born 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on

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. She is a professor of mathematics at the

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Education and career

Schnass was born in

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. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the

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in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by

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. She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the

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in 2009. Her dissertation was ''Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design'', and her

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was Pierre Vandergheynst. After postdoctoral research at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in

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(chosen over

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to stay close to her family) and as an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow at the

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and University of Innsbruck, she joined the Innsbruck Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor in 2016.

Recognition

Schnass was a winner of the

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of the

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in 2014. She was a keynote speaker at iTWIST 2016.

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