As of 2016, Dabo-Niang is married.[1] She had 3 children between starting her master's degree and finishing her doctoral thesis, and has 4 children in total.[1][2] She has said that balancing parenting and her mathematics career has been a challenge, and she credits her persistence to her desire to succeed and the support of her husband.[1]
Sophie Dabo-Niang has successfully supervised the doctoral theses of several students in Africa.[7] As of January 2021 she is a full professor at the University of Lille and is supervising and co-supervising multiple African students.[1] She has taught master's-level statistics courses, including in Senegal.[1]
She introduced the spatial statistics subfields to a university in Dakar, Senegal, and supervised the first Senegalese and Mauritanian doctoral students focusing on the field. She often participates on thesis juries in Africa.[1]
Dabo-Niang has coordinated scientific events in Africa. In Senegal, she coordinated a CIMPA event and an event to encourage young girls in the mathematical sciences.[1] She serves as the chair of the Developing Countries Committee for the European Mathematical Society.[5][8]
Selected publicationsedit
Booksedit
Functional and Operatorial Statistics. Contributions to Statistics. Sophie Dabo-Niang, Frédéric Ferraty (eds.). Physica-Verlag Heidelberg. 2008. ISBN 978-3-7908-2061-4. Retrieved 2021-01-15.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Mathematical Modeling of Random and Deterministic Phenomena. Solym Mawaki Mamou-Abi, Sophie Dabo-Niang, Jean-Jacques Salone (eds.). ISTE, Wiley. 2020-02-01. ISBN 978-1-78630-454-4. Retrieved 2021-01-15.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Articlesedit
Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Rhomari, Noureddine (2003-01-01). "Estimation non paramétrique de la régression avec variable explicative dans un espace métrique". Comptes Rendus Mathematique. 336 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1016/S1631-073X(02)00012-2. ISSN 1631-073X. S2CID 122151527.
Dabo-Niang, Sophie (2007). "Kernel Regression Estimation for Continuous Spatial Processes". Mathematical Methods of Statistics. 16 (4): 298–317. doi:10.3103/S1066530707040023. S2CID 121410227.
Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Ferraty, Frédéric; Vieu, Philippe (2007-06-15). "On the using of modal curves for radar waveforms classification". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 51 (10): 4878–4890. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.012. ISSN 0167-9473.
Chebana, Fateh; Dabo‐Niang, Sophie; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2012). "Exploratory functional flood frequency analysis and outlier detection". Water Resources Research. 48 (4). Bibcode:2012WRR....48.4514C. doi:10.1029/2011WR011040. ISSN 1944-7973.