Ingrid Daubechies

Daubechies is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression while her research interests focus on the mathematical aspects of time-frequency analysis, in particular wavelets, as well as applications. She is the first woman president of the International Mathematical Union (2011–2014). In 1998 she was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has been awarded the Louis Empain Prize for Physics (Belgium, 1984), the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize: for Exposition (1994), for Seminal Research (2011), the American Mathematical Society Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize (1997), The International Society for Optical Engineering Recognition of Outstanding Achievement (1998), IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation (1998),National Academy of Sciences Medal in Mathematics (2000),Eduard Rhein Foundation 2000 Basic Research Award (2000), Gold Medal (Gouden Penning) of the Flemish Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgium (2005), ICIAM Pioneer Prize (2008), Lars Onsager Medal (2010),Guggenheim Fellow (2010), Benjamin Franklin Medal for Electrical Engineering (2011), Booker Gold Medal of the URSI (2011), James Kilby Medal of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2011), Okawa Prize (2011) and most recently the Nemmers prize (2012). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Photograph By: David von Becker