Karin Schnass | |
|---|---|
| Schnass (on right) receiving the Start-Preis in June 2014. On the left is Reinhold Mitterlehner, Austrian Minister of Economy. | |
| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Education | University of Vienna, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Occupations | mathematician, computer scientist |
| Employer | professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck |
| Known for | sparse dictionary learning |
| Awards | Start-Preis at Austrian Science Fund (2014) |
Karin Schnass (born 1980) [1] is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. [2] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck. [3]
Schnass was born in Klosterneuburg. [1] She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by Hans Georg Feichtinger. [4] She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009. Her dissertation was Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design, and her doctoral advisor was Pierre Vandergheynst. [4] [5]
After postdoctoral research at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz [4] (chosen over Stanford University to stay close to her family) [6] and as an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow at the University of Sassari and University of Innsbruck, she joined the Innsbruck Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor in 2016. [4]
Schnass was a winner of the Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund in 2014. [1] She was a keynote speaker at iTWIST 2016. [2]