Ronald Coifman

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Ronald Coifman
Born1941
NationalityIsrael
United States
Alma materUniversity of Geneva
AwardsNational Medal of Science (1999) Schock prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University
Doctoral advisorJovan Karamata
Doctoral studentsSijue Wu

Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Phillips Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata.[1]

Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the 1996 DARPA Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999 National Medal of Science.[2][3]

In 2013, he co-founded ThetaRay, a cyber security and big data analytics company.[4]

In 2018, he received the Rolf Schock Prize for Mathematics.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ronald Coifman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Ronald Coifman, Ph.D., University of Geneva, 1965". Yale University. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  3. ^ National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science
  4. ^ "Israel's ThetaRay turns to maths to detect cyber threats". Reuters. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  5. ^ "A mathematician, a logician, a soloist and an Italian avant-gardist are awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes 2018". Swedish Royal Academies. March 15, 2018.

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