44 Facts About Ingrid Daubechies

Baroness Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician.

Ingrid Daubechies is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.

Ingrid Daubechies is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ingrid Daubechies served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2011 to 2013.

The name Ingrid Daubechies is widely associated with the orthogonal Ingrid Daubechies wavelet and the biorthogonal CDF wavelet.

Ingrid Daubechies's research involves the use of automatic methods from both mathematics, technology, and biology to extract information from samples such as bones and teeth.

Ingrid Daubechies developed sophisticated image processing techniques used to help establish the authenticity and age of some of the world's most famous works of art, including paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt.

Ingrid Daubechies is on the board of directors of Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education, a program that helps women entering graduate studies in the mathematical sciences.

Ingrid Daubechies was the first woman to be president of the International Mathematical Union.

Ingrid Daubechies became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2015.

Ingrid Daubechies was born in Houthalen, Belgium, as the daughter of Simonne Duran and Marcel Ingrid Daubechies.

Ingrid Daubechies remembers that when she was a little girl and could not sleep, she did not count numbers, as one would expect from a child, but started to multiply numbers by two from memory.

Ingrid Daubechies's parents found out that mathematical conceptions, such as cone and tetrahedron, were familiar to her before she reached the age of six.

Ingrid Daubechies excelled at the primary school and was moved up a grade after only three months.

Ingrid Daubechies completed her undergraduate studies in physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1975.

Ingrid Daubechies obtained her PhD in theoretical physics in 1980 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Ingrid Daubechies spent most of 1986 as a guest-researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York.

In July 1987, Ingrid Daubechies joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

In 1991, Ingrid Daubechies was appointed as a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where she taught in their mathematics department.

Ingrid Daubechies moved to Princeton University in 1994, where she was active within the program in applied and computational mathematics.

Ingrid Daubechies was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at Princeton.

In January 2011, Daubechies moved to Duke University to serve as the James B Duke Professor in the department of mathematics and electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.

Ingrid Daubechies has used mathematical techniques on multiple art restoration projects.

Ingrid Daubechies received the Louis Empain Prize for Physics in 1984.

Ingrid Daubechies became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

In 2000, Ingrid 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.

Ingrid Daubechies was awarded the Basic Research Award of the German Eduard Rhein Foundation as well as the NAS Award in Mathematics.

In 2003, Ingrid Daubechies was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

In January 2005, Ingrid Daubechies became the third woman since 1924 to give the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture sponsored by the American Mathematical Society.

Ingrid Daubechies's talk was on "The Interplay Between Analysis and Algorithm".

Ingrid Daubechies was the 2006 Emmy Noether Lecturer at the San Antonio Joint Mathematics Meetings.

Ingrid Daubechies won the 2012 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics awarded by Northwestern University, and the 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category.

Ingrid Daubechies gave the Gauss Lecture of the German Mathematical Society in 2015.

Ingrid Daubechies was the one to suggest to Simons that the foundation should fund better mechanisms for interpreting existing data, rather than new research.

Also in 2015, Ingrid Daubechies was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the mathematics and applications of wavelets".

In 2018, Ingrid Daubechies won the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong.

Ingrid Daubechies is the first woman to be the recipient of the award.

Also in 2018, Ingrid Daubechies was awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award for her work on wavelets.

Ingrid Daubechies is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Ingrid Daubechies was named the North American Laureate of 2019 L'Oreal-UNESCO International Award For Women in Science.

In 2019, Ingrid Daubechies was chosen along with Najat Aoun Saliba, Maki Kawai, Karen Hallberg, and Claire Voisin.

Ingrid Daubechies received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 2020.

Ingrid Daubechies was the first woman to receive this award.

In 1985, Ingrid 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.