Sophie Dabo-Niang

Sophie was encouraged to pursue mathematics by her parents and her teachers. She knew she wanted to study mathematics early in high school.{{Cite web| title = Sophie Dabo {{!}} African Women in Mathematics Association| access-date = 2021-01-14| url = http://africanwomeninmath.org/fr/femmes-mathematiciennes/portrait/sophie-dabo}}

Sophie Dabo-Niang earned her PhD in 2002 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Sophie enjoys passing on her passion for mathematics to her students.

As of 2016, Dabo-Niang is married. She had 3 children between starting her master's degree and finishing her doctoral thesis, and has 4 children in total.{{Cite AV media| people = Sciences & Coundefined (Director)| title = Egalité Hommes/Femmes au cœur des laboratoires scientifiques| accessdate = 2021-01-15| date = 2017-03-22| time = 2:50| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQUfDXUpbbo}} 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.

Dabo-Niang has published articles on functional statistics, nonparametric and semi-parametric estimates of weakly independent processes, spatial statistics, and mathematical epidemiology.{{Cite web| title = Sophie DABO Contact, Faculty Profile - Université de Lille| work = Université de Lille| access-date = 2021-01-15| url = https://pro.univ-lille.fr/sophie-dabo2/contact/}}

Dabo-Niang serves as an editor of the journal Revista Colombiana de Estadística{{Cite web|title=Rev.Colomb.Estad. - Editorial board|url=http://www.scielo.org.co/revistas/rce/iedboard.htm|access-date=2021-01-15|website=www.scielo.org.co}}{{Cite conference| publisher = Lille Économie Management| pages = 114| last = Vauzeilles| first = Jacqueline| title = Rapport d'activité du LEM| date = 2015| url = https://lem.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/laboratoires/lem/DocAdmin/new_-Rapport_d_activite_LEM_UMR_9221_2015-2018.pdf}} and is on the scientific committee of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA).{{Cite web|title=Executive Team {{!}} CIMPA|url=https://www.cimpa.info/en/node/6191|access-date=2021-01-15|website=www.cimpa.info}}

Sophie Dabo-Niang has successfully supervised the doctoral theses of several students in Africa.{{Cite web|title=Catalogue SUDOC|url=http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/xslt/DB=2.1/SET=4/TTL=1//CMD?ACT=AND&TRM=%5C9001+Y&REMEMBERFORMVALUES=N&COOKIE=U10178,Klecteurweb,D2.1,Ee175bdfd-ab,I250,B341720009+,SY,QDEF,A%5C9008+1,,J,H2-26,,29,,34,,39,,44,,49-50,,53-78,,80-87,NLECTEUR+PSI,R208.80.154.81,FN|access-date=2021-01-15|website=www.sudoc.abes.fr}} As of January 2021 she is a full professor at the University of Lille and is supervising and co-supervising multiple African students. She has taught master's-level statistics courses, including in Senegal.

She introduced the spatial statistics subfields to a university in Dakar, Senegal, and supervised the first Senegalese and Mauritanian doctoral students focusing on the field. She often participates on thesis juries in Africa.

Dabo-Niang has coordinated scientific events in Africa. In Senegal, she coordinated a CIMPA event and an event to encourage young girls in the mathematical sciences. She serves as the chair of the Developing Countries Committee for the European Mathematical Society.{{Cite web|last=nickgill|date=2018-02-20|title=Members|url=https://nickpgill.github.io/emscdc/members|access-date=2021-01-15|website=EMS-CDC|language=en}}

• {{Cite book| publisher = Physica-Verlag Heidelberg| isbn = 978-3-7908-2061-4| others = Sophie Dabo-Niang, Frédéric Ferraty (eds.)| title = Functional and Operatorial Statistics| series = Contributions to Statistics| access-date = 2021-01-15| date = 2008| url = https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783790820614}}
• {{Cite book| publisher = ISTE, Wiley| isbn = 978-1-78630-454-4| others = Solym Mawaki Mamou-Abi, Sophie Dabo-Niang, Jean-Jacques Salone (eds.)| title = Mathematical Modeling of Random and Deterministic Phenomena| access-date = 2021-01-15| date = 2020-02-01| url = http://www.iste.co.uk/book.php?id=1601}}

• {{Cite journal|last1=Dabo-Niang|first1=Sophie|last2=Rhomari|first2=Noureddine|date=2003-01-01|title=Estimation non paramétrique de la régression avec variable explicative dans un espace métrique|url=|journal=Comptes Rendus Mathematique|volume=336|issue=1|pages=75–80|doi=10.1016/S1631-073X(02)00012-2|s2cid=122151527 |issn=1631-073X}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Dabo-Niang|first=Sophie|date=2007|title=Kernel Regression Estimation for Continuous Spatial Processes|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00789897|journal=Mathematical Methods of Statistics|volume=16|issue=4|pages=298–317|doi=10.3103/S1066530707040023|s2cid=121410227|url-access=subscription}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Dabo-Niang|first1=Sophie|last2=Ferraty|first2=Frédéric|last3=Vieu|first3=Philippe|date=2007-06-15|title=On the using of modal curves for radar waveforms classification|url=|journal=Computational Statistics & Data Analysis|volume=51|issue=10|pages=4878–4890|doi=10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.012|issn=0167-9473}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Chebana|first1=Fateh|last2=Dabo‐Niang|first2=Sophie|last3=Ouarda|first3=Taha B. M. J.|date=2012|title=Exploratory functional flood frequency analysis and outlier detection|journal=Water Resources Research|volume=48|issue=4|doi=10.1029/2011WR011040|bibcode=2012WRR....48.4514C |issn=1944-7973|doi-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Dabo-Niang|first1=Sophie|last2=Yao|first2=Anne-Françoise|date=2013-01-01|title=Kernel spatial density estimation in infinite dimension space|url=|journal=Metrika|volume=76|issue=1|pages=19–52|doi=10.1007/s00184-011-0374-4|s2cid=121408701|issn=1435-926X}}

The African Women in Mathematics Association has profiled Dabo-Niang. She was honored by Femmes et Mathématiques in 2015.{{Cite web| title = Mathématiciennes africaines Meeting Agenda| work = FEMMES ET MATHÉMATIQUES| format = Professional Organization| access-date = 2021-01-15| date = 2015-05-30| url = https://femmes-et-maths.fr/2015/05/07/mathematiciennes-africaines/}}

• Female education in STEM

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• [https://sites.google.com/view/sophie-dabo-niang/ personal website]
• [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-2-functional-estimation-in-high-dimensional-data/id948258814?i=1000326728544 podcast recording] of her workshop on "Functional estimation in high dimensional data : Application to classification"
• {{google scholar id|qdgz_E0AAAAJ}}

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