Mila Nikolova (1962 – 20 June 2018) was a Bulgarian applied mathematician, known for her research in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing.
[1][2][3][4] After working as a science journalist and engineer in Bulgaria, Nikolova completed a Ph.D. in 1995 in signal and image processing at the University of Paris-Sud.
[5] She did postdoctoral research with Électricité de France, and then joined the faculty at Paris Descartes University in 1996.
[5] Nikolova won the Michel-Monpetit Prize [fr] of the French Academy of Sciences in 2010, "for the originality and depth of her research in mathematical image processing and in solving certain inverse problems".
[1][6] The Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision has published a posthumous special issue in honor of Nikolova.