Sophie Schbath
Sophie Schbath (born 1969) is a French statistician whose research concerns the statistics of pattern matching in strings and formal languages, particularly as applied to genomics. She is a director of research for the French National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), and a former president of the French BioInformatics Society.
Education and career
Schbath was born on 19 December 1969 in Nantes. She earned a master's degree in stochastic modeling and statistics in 1992 from Paris-Sud University,[1] and completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at Paris Descartes University. Her dissertation was Étude asymptotique du nombre d'occurrences d'un mot dans une chaîne de Markov et application à la recherche de mots de fréquence exceptionnelle dans les séquences d'ADN.[1][2] She earned a habilitation in 2003 at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne.[1]
After postdoctoral research in 1996 at the University of Southern California, Schbath became a researcher for INRAE. She became a director of research in 2006, and director of research (1st class) in 2018. She was president of the French BioInformatics Society from 2010 to 2016.[1]
Books
Schbath is the coauthor of the book ADN, mots et modèles, with S. Robin and F. Rodolphe, BELIN, 2003, translated into English as DNA, Words and Models: Statistics of Exceptional Words, Cambridge University Press, 2005.[3]
She is also one of the contributors to the book Applied Combinatorics on Words, which lists its author as the collective pseudonym M. Lothaire.[4]
References
- Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-05-08
- Sophie Schbath at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Reviews of DNA, Words and Models:
- Dasgupta, Nairanjana (February 2007), Technometrics, 49 (1): 106–107, doi:10.1198/tech.2007.s461, JSTOR 25471291CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Davis, J. Wade (December 2007), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102 (480): 1475, doi:10.1198/jasa.2007.s232, JSTOR 27640000CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Burns, Daniel M. Jr. (2008), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2214200CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Brendel, Volker (March 2008), Biometrics, 64 (1): 312–313, doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.00962_4.x, JSTOR 25502052CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Reviews of Applied Combinatorics on Words:
- Allouche, Jean-Paul, zbMATH, Zbl 1133.68067CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Bóna, Milós (September 2006), SIAM Review, 48 (3): 600–601, JSTOR 20453845CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (2007), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2165687CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)