Ingrid Daubechies

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Appointments and Affiliations

• James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Professor in the Department of Mathematics
• Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact Information

• Email Address: ingrid.daubechies@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Department of Mathematics Profile
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Profile
  • Google Scholar Profile
  • Wikipedia Profile

Education

• Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), 1980

Research Interests

Wavelet theory, signal processing, machine learning, computational geometry, time-frequency analysis

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award. Fudan University and Zhongzhi Enterprise Group. 2018
• Elected Member. National Academy of Engineering. 2015
• Highly Cited Researcher. Thomson Reuters. 2014
• American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2013
• BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. BBVA Foundation Frontiers. 2013
• Basic Research Award. German Eduard Rhein Foundation. 2013
• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering. Franklin Institute. 2013
• Elected Member. National Academy of Sciences. 2013
• Emily Noether Lecturer. Association for Women in Mathematics. 2013
• Fellow. American Mathematical Society. 2013
• Fellow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2013
• Fellow. MacArthur Foundation. 2013
• Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation. IEEE Information Theory Society. 2013
• Guggenheim Fellow. Unknown. 2013
• Jack S.Kilby Signal Processing Medal. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2013
• Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. American Mathematical Society. 2013
• Louis Empain Prize for Physics. Unknown. 2013
• National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics. National Academy of Sciences. 2013
• Nemmers Prize in Mathematics. Northwestern University. 2013
• Pioneer Prize. International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 2013
• Ruth Little Satter Prize in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. 2013
• Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. American Mathematical Society. 2013
• AAAS Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science, The. 2011
• Benjamin Franklin Medal. Franklin Institute. 2011
• Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2011
• John von Neumann Lectureship. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 2011
• Leroy P. Steele Prize Seminal Contribution to Research. American Mathematical Society. 2011
• Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2010
• Fellow. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 2009
• Membership. American Philosophical Society. 2003
• Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectureship. Mathematical Association of America. 2001
• Highly Cited Researcher. Thomson Reuters. 2001
• NAS Award in Mathematics. National Academy of Science. 2000
• National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. 2000
• Fellows. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 1999
• School of Mathematics/Members. Institute for Advanced Study. 1999
• Members/ Foreign Associates. National Academy of Science. 1998
• Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. 1997
• Leroy P. Steele Prize Mathematical Exposition. American Mathematical Society. 1994
• Fellows. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1993
• Fellows. MacArthur Foundation. 1992
• School of Mathematics/ Members. Institute for Advanced Study. 1990

Courses Taught

• CHEM 89S: First-Year Seminar
• ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• MATH 89S: First-Year Seminar
• MATH 112L: Laboratory Calculus II
• MATH 240: Introduction to Applied Mathematics: Modeling, Equations and Proofs
• MATH 393: Research Independent Study

In the News

• Ingrid Daubechies, Making Waves (Jan 28, 2020)
• Harvard Presents Ingrid Daubechies With Honorary Degree (Jun 13, 2019)
• Talking with Ingrid Daubechies: 8 Tips for Generating Creative Ideas (May 28, 2019 | Forbes)
• Daubechies Named North American Laureate of L'Oréal-UNESCO International Award For Women in Science (Feb 12, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering)
• Ingrid Daubechies' Favorite Theorem: It Involves Graphs And Biologists Love It (Aug 6, 2018 | Scientific American)
• Duke Mathematician Awarded More Than $400000 for Her Contributions to Wavelet Theory (Jul 30, 2018)
• Duke Professor Wins $100,000 Prize in Applied Mathematics (Jun 11, 2018)
• Ingrid Daubechies: Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece (Sep 30, 2016 | Quanta Magazine)
• Duke math professor wins $1.5 million award (Aug 3, 2016 | The News & Observer)
• Simons Foundation Awards Duke's Ingrid Daubechies $1.5M Grant (Jul 29, 2016)
• Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes (Jul 29, 2016)
• Four Pratt Faculty Listed Among Most Highly Cited (Jan 26, 2016)
• Software Helps Art Conservators Clear the Cradling (Sep 9, 2015)
• Ingrid Daubechies on Breaking the Glass Ceiling (Jun 17, 2015)
• Wiesner and Daubechies Named National Academy of Engineering Members (Feb 6, 2015)
• Daubechies on the First Female Winner of the Fields Math Medal (Aug 14, 2014)
• Ingrid Daubechies comments: Top math prize has its first female winner (Aug 13, 2014 | The New York Times)
• Duke Faculty Head to DC to Talk to Policymakers About Math and Art (Jun 16, 2014)

Representative Publications

• Sabetsarvestani, Z; Sober, B; Higgitt, C; Daubechies, I; Rodrigues, MRD, Artificial intelligence for art investigation: Meeting the challenge of separating x-ray images of the Ghent Altarpiece., Science Advances, vol 5 no. 8 (2019) [10.1126/sciadv.aaw7416] [abs].
• Alaifari, R; Daubechies, I; Grohs, P; Yin, R, Stable Phase Retrieval in Infinite Dimensions, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, vol 19 no. 4 (2019), pp. 869-900 [10.1007/s10208-018-9399-7] [abs].
• Shan, S; Kovalsky, SZ; Winchester, JM; Boyer, DM; Daubechies, I, ariaDNE: A robustly implemented algorithm for Dirichlet energy of the normal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol 10 no. 4 (2019), pp. 541-552 [10.1111/2041-210X.13148] [abs].
• Zhu, W; Qiu, Q; Huang, J; Calderbank, R; Sapiro, G; Daubechies, I, LDMNet: Low Dimensional Manifold Regularized Neural Networks, Proceedings of the Ieee Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2018), pp. 2743-2751 [10.1109/CVPR.2018.00290] [abs].
• Yin, R; Daubechies, I, Directional Wavelet Bases Constructions with Dyadic Quincunx Subsampling, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, vol 24 no. 3 (2018), pp. 872-907 [10.1007/s00041-017-9540-z] [abs].