Won National Medal of Science (2025).
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Ingrid Daubechies
Baroness Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian-American physicist and mathematician at Duke University. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
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science · Belgian physicist and mathematician (born 1954) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · also Ingrid Daubechies, Baroness Ingrid Daubechies, Daubechies
Born 17 August 1954 · Q275604
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctorate at the Ghent University (2025).
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2024).
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Daubechies received an honorary Doctor of Sciences from University of Pennsylvania
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2023).
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Was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics "for work in wavelet theory and applied harmonic analysis”
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2020· 4 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2020).
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Awarded Inspiring Fifty Belgium (2020).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Awards (2020).
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And 2021 Daubechies, along with fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann, led a team of mathematicians and artists who collectively built the touring art and math installation known as Mathemalchemy
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2019· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2019).
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Awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science (2019).
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Became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2018).
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Daubechies won the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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Daubechies was awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award ($440,000) for her work on wavelets
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2016· 1 entry
And Heekyoung Hahn founded Duke Summer Workshop in Mathematics (SWIM) for rising high school seniors who were female
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Gauss Lectureship (2015).
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Daubechies was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the mathematics and applications of wavelets"
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2012).
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Awarded Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2012).
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King Albert II of Belgium granted Daubechies the title of Baroness
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2011· 5 entries
Awarded Okawa Prize (2011).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011).
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Awarded Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2011).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2011).
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Daubechies was the SIAM John von Neumann Lecturer, and was awarded the IEEE Jack S
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (2010).
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Was awarded an honorary doctorate by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Hasselt University (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Noether Lecture (2006).
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Gouden Penning (2005).
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Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2005).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (2005).
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Awarded Sofia Kovalevsky Lecture (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Published “An iterative thresholding algorithm for linear inverse problems with a sparsity constraint” in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics — cited 3,848 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Daubechies was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded John von Neumann Prize (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (2000).
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Daubechies became the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics, presented every four years for excellence in published mathematical research
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1998· 1 entry
Was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences and won the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (1997).
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Was awarded the AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter prize
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1994).
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Received the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Exposition for her book, Ten Lectures on Wavelets, and was invited to give a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich
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Where she was active within the program in applied and computational mathematics
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1992).
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Was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 1993, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Published “Ten Lectures on Wavelets” — cited 12,939 times.
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1991· 1 entry
Daubechies was appointed as a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where she taught in their mathematics department
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1990· 1 entry
Published “The wavelet transform, time-frequency localization and signal analysis” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory — cited 5,069 times.
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1988· 2 entries
Published “Orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets” in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics — cited 5,712 times.
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Published the result of her research on orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
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1985· 1 entry
Daubechies met mathematician Robert Calderbank when he was on a three-month exchange visit from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey to the Brussels-based mathematics division of Philips Research
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1981· 1 entry
And research associate-professor 1985, funded by a fellowship from the NFWO (Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
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1980· 1 entry
Studied at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Doctor of Philosophy (1980).
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-08-17.
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