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Emmanuel Candès(1970)

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Arts

Emmanuel Jean Candès is a French statistician most well known for his contributions to the field of compressed sensing and statistical hypothesis testing. He is a professor of statistics and electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics. Candès is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

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France

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

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Major Awards

Publications

645

Citations

h-index

N/A

i10-index

37.9

Avg Citations/Paper

Awards & Recognition

MacArthur Fellowship Stanford University

2006

Most Cited Works

Top publications by citation count

Single-Asset Adaptive Leveraged Volatility Control

(2026)

citations

Mosaic inference on panel data

(2025)

citations

Uncovering Heterogeneous Effects via Localized Feature Selection

bioRxiv(2025)

citations

Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management

(2025)

citations

Thematic Investing: A Risk-Based Perspective

Financial analysts journal(2025)

citations

Second-order group knockoffs with applications to genome-wide association studies

Bioinform.(2024)

citations

Beyond guilty by association at scale: searching for causal variants on the basis of genome-wide summary statistics

bioRxiv(2024)

citations

Controlled Variable Selection from Summary Statistics Only? A Solution via GhostKnockoffs and Penalized Regression

arXiv.org(2024)

citations

The mosaic permutation test: an exact and nonparametric goodness-of-fit test for factor models

(2024)

citations

#10

Scalable varia0onal Bayes inference for mul0variate Hawkes processes

(2023)

citations

Recent Publications

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Single-Asset Adaptive Leveraged Volatility Control

2026

0citations

Mosaic inference on panel data

2025

0citations

Uncovering Heterogeneous Effects via Localized Feature Selection

bioRxiv2025

0citations

Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management

2025

0citations

Thematic Investing: A Risk-Based Perspective

Financial analysts journal2025

0citations

Second-order group knockoffs with applications to genome-wide association studies

Bioinform.2024

5citations

Open Access

Beyond guilty by association at scale: searching for causal variants on the basis of genome-wide summary statistics

bioRxiv2024

4citations

Open Access

Controlled Variable Selection from Summary Statistics Only? A Solution via GhostKnockoffs and Penalized Regression

arXiv.org2024

9citations

The mosaic permutation test: an exact and nonparametric goodness-of-fit test for factor models

2024

2citations

Scalable varia0onal Bayes inference for mul0variate Hawkes processes

2023

0citations

External Profiles

Publications & Citations

Co-winners

Shared the same award in the same year

Terence Tao

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Luis von Ahn

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Atul Gawande

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Jim Fruchterman

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

David Macaulay

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

John Zorn

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

George Saunders

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Lisa Curran

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Victoria Hale

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Edith Widder

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Claire J. Tomlin

MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Education

École polytechnique

Stanford University(Doctor of Philosophy)

Doctoral Advisors

Vlad VoroninskiMatteo SesiaStephen BatesStephen R. BeckerLaurent DemanetYaniv PlanPaige Alicia RandallHannes HelgasonMahdi SoltanolkotabiAlexandra ChouldechovaCarlos Fernández GrandaDavid BarmherzigPragya SurJackson GorhamWeijie SuShuangning LiZhimei RenEvan PattersonJohn CherianIsaac GibbsDavid Donoho