The CNRS has just awarded its gold medal, France's most prestigious scientific distinction, to mathematician Stéphane Mallat, holder of the Chair of Data Science at the Collège de France, formerly a professor at the ENS and member of the DI ENS. He is the sixth mathematician to receive this award since its creation in 1954. Stéphane Mallat specializes in mathematics applied to signal processing and statistical learning. His research has been at the heart of the digital revolution (he notably introduced the theory behind the JPEG-2000 compression standard) and is now the foundation of artificial intelligence. Always navigating between abstraction and practice, he is the author of numerous patents. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies, as well as the National Academy of Engineering in the United States.
Read the in-depth article about him in the CNRS journal:
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/stephane-mallat-batisseur-de-ponts-mathematiques-et-informatiques