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

• MATH 212: Multivariable Calculus
• MATH 240: Introduction to Applied Mathematics: Modeling, Equations and Proofs
• MATH 391: Independent Study
• MATH 393: Research Independent Study
• MATH 494: Research Independent Study
• MATH 635: Functional Analysis
• MATH 712: Multivariable Calculus

In the News

• Celebrating Pi Day with Duke Mathematicians (Mar 13, 2023 | Duke Today)
• Duke Professor Wins One of the Most Prestigious Awards in Mathematics (Feb 7, 2023 | Duke Today)
• Cookies for Pi Day (Mar 11, 2022)
• Art Installation Celebrates the Beauty and Whimsy of Math (Nov 9, 2021)
• 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

• Daubechies, I; Devore, R; Dym, N; Faigenbaum-Golovin, S; Kovalsky, SZ; Lin, KC; Park, J; Petrova, G; Sober, B, Neural Network Approximation of Refinable Functions, Ieee Transactions on Information Theory, vol 69 no. 1 (2023), pp. 482-495 [10.1109/TIT.2022.3199601] [abs].
• Daubechies, I; DeVore, R; Foucart, S; Hanin, B; Petrova, G, Nonlinear Approximation and (Deep) ReLU Networks, Constructive Approximation, vol 55 no. 1 (2022), pp. 127-172 [10.1007/s00365-021-09548-z] [abs].
• Pu, W; Huang, J-J; Sober, B; Daly, N; Higgitt, C; Daubechies, I; Dragotti, PL; Rodrigues, MRD, Mixed X-Ray Image Separation for Artworks With Concealed Designs., Ieee Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the Ieee Signal Processing Society, vol 31 (2022), pp. 4458-4473 [10.1109/tip.2022.3185488] [abs].
• Fulwood, EL; Shan, S; Winchester, JM; Gao, T; Kirveslahti, H; Daubechies, I; Boyer, DM, Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape, Paleobiology, vol 47 no. 4 (2021), pp. 612-631 [10.1017/pab.2021.9] [abs].
• Cheng, C; Daubechies, I; Dym, N; Lu, J, Stable phase retrieval from locally stable and conditionally connected measurements, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol 55 (2021), pp. 440-465 [10.1016/j.acha.2021.07.001] [abs].