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:
Education
- Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), 1980
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., R. Devore, N. Dym, S. Faigenbaum-Golovin, S. Z. Kovalsky, K. C. Lin, J. Park, G. Petrova, and B. Sober. “Neural Network Approximation of Refinable Functions.” Ieee Transactions on Information Theory 69, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 482–95. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2022.3199601.
- Daubechies, I., R. DeVore, S. Foucart, B. Hanin, and G. Petrova. “Nonlinear Approximation and (Deep) ReLU Networks.” Constructive Approximation 55, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 127–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00365-021-09548-z.
- Pu, Wei, Jun-Jie Huang, Barak Sober, Nathan Daly, Catherine Higgitt, Ingrid Daubechies, Pier Luigi Dragotti, and Miguel R. D. Rodrigues. “Mixed X-Ray Image Separation for Artworks With Concealed Designs.” Ieee Transactions on Image Processing : A Publication of the Ieee Signal Processing Society 31 (January 2022): 4458–73. https://doi.org/10.1109/tip.2022.3185488.
- Fulwood, E. L., S. Shan, J. M. Winchester, T. Gao, H. Kirveslahti, I. Daubechies, and D. M. Boyer. “Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape.” Paleobiology 47, no. 4 (November 27, 2021): 612–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.9.
- Cheng, C., I. Daubechies, N. Dym, and J. Lu. “Stable phase retrieval from locally stable and conditionally connected measurements.” Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 55 (November 1, 2021): 440–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acha.2021.07.001.