Sophie Dabo-Niang

Early life Sophie was encouraged to pursue mathematics by her parents and her teachers. She knew she wanted to study mathematics early in high school. Education Sophie Dabo-Niang earned her PhD in 2002 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. She has said that balancing parenting and her mathematics career has been a challenge, and she credits her persistence to her desire to succeed and the support of her husband. ==Mathematical work==

Dabo-Niang has published articles on functional statistics, nonparametric and semi-parametric estimates of weakly independent processes, spatial statistics, and mathematical epidemiology. Dabo-Niang serves as an editor of the journal Revista Colombiana de Estadística and is on the scientific committee of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA). Professorship and developing country outreach Sophie Dabo-Niang has successfully supervised the doctoral theses of several students in Africa. As of January 2021 she is a full professor at the University of Lille and is supervising and co-supervising multiple African students. Selected publications Books • • Articles • • • • • ==Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions==

The African Women in Mathematics Association has profiled Dabo-Niang. She was honored by Femmes et Mathématiques in 2015. ==See also==