Emmanuel Candès, Otis Chodosh, Yasha Eliashberg, and Eleny Ionel Receive 2026 Frontiers of Science Awards
Stanford University Mathematics Professors Emmanuel Candès, Otis Chodosh, Yasha Eliashberg, and Eleny Ionel have received 2026 Frontiers of Science Awards from the International Congress for Basic Science. These annual awards honor, “research of the highest scientific value and originality that have made an important impact on its area within the past ten years.” The prizes will be awarded at the International Congress of Basic Science to be held in Beijing later this August.
Emmanuel Candès is recognized for his paper with Yingying Fan, Lucas Janson, and Jinchi Lv, “Panning for gold: 'model-X' knockoffs for high dimensional controlled variable selection,” in J. Royal Statistical Soc. Ser. B Statistical Methodology (2018).
Otis Chodosh receives two prizes. One for his paper with Chao Li, “Stable minimal surfaces in R^4,” in Acta Mathematical (2024), and another for his paper with Christos Mantoulidis, “The p-widths of a surface,” in Publ. IHES (2023).
Yasha Eliashberg is recognized for his paper with Emmy Murphy, “Making cobordisms symplectic,” in JAMS (2023).
Eleny Ionel is recognized for her paper with Aleksander Doan and Thomas Walpuski, “The Gopakumar-Vafa finiteness conjecture,” to appear in the Annals.