Yaniv Plan has won the 2016 UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award. The prize has a cash component, and the winner is invited to give a prestigious invited lecture. So we can look forward to hearing Prof Plan describe his work sometime later this year.

The UBC Math/PIMS Faculty Award was created by two founding donors, Anton Kuipers and Darrell Duffie, to recognize UBC researchers for their leading edge work in mathematics or its applications in the sciences. This is only the second time it has been given; the first-ever winner was Rachel Ollivier for 2015.

Professor Plan's research has connections to machine learning, probability, signal processing, and information theory. He has made pivotal discoveries in compressive sensing, low-rank matrix recovery in the presence of noise, and high-dimensional data analysis. Referees comment on his unique ability to do mathematics that is deep and practical, theoretical and at the same time computationally relevant.

Yaniv Plan earned his PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2011, under the supervision of Emmanuel Candes. He went on to the University of Michigan as an NSF Posdoctoral Fellow and Hildebrandt Assistant Professor, then joined the faculty at UBC Vancouver in 2014.