The 2013 Shaw Prize in Mathematical sciences has been awarded to D. Donoho  for his profound contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets.

For more information, see http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=5&twoid=79&threeid=221&fourid=380