Mila Nikolova (1962 – 20 June 2018) was a Bulgarian applied mathematician, known for her research in
image processing
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,
inverse problem
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s, and
compressed sensing
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.
Education and career
After working as a science journalist and engineer in Bulgaria, Nikolova completed a Ph.D. in 1995 in signal and image processing at the
University of Paris-Sud
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. In 2006, she earned a
habilitation
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in mathematics at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
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.
She did postdoctoral research with
Électricité de France
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, and then joined the faculty at
Paris Descartes University
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in 1996. In 1999 she was given a position as senior research fellow at
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
, associated at first with the
École nationale supérieure des télécommunications
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région ...
and since 2003 with the
École normale supérieure Cachan. She became a director of research at CNRS in 2009.
Recognition
Nikolova won the of the
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...
in 2010, "for the originality and depth of her research in mathematical image processing and in solving certain inverse problems".
The ''Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision'' has published a posthumous special issue in honor of Nikolova.
References
External links
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Home page
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1962 births
2018 deaths
Bulgarian mathematicians
French mathematicians
Bulgarian women mathematicians
French women mathematicians
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research