Emmanuel Candes is the recipient of the 2010 George Pólya Prize

Emmanuel J. Candes, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, is the recipient of the 2010 George Pólya Prize. The prize recognizes Professor Candes's role in developing the theory of compressed sensing and matrix completions "the algorithms and analysis are not only beautiful mathematics, worthy of study for their own sake, but they also lead to remarkable solutions of practical engineering problems."