Nationality American Role Professor Institutions Stanford University Fields Mathematics | Notable awards Shaw Prize (2013) Doctoral advisor Peter J. Huber Name David Donoho | |
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Born March 5, 1957 (age 67)
Los Angeles ( 1957-03-05 ) Alma mater Harvard University
Princeton University Doctoral students Emmanuel Candes
Jianqing Fan
Eric Kolaczyk Education Harvard University, Princeton University Awards MacArthur Fellowship, The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences Notable students Emmanuel Candes, Jianqing Fan Similar People Emmanuel Candes, Jianqing Fan, Michael Lustig, John M Pauly, Peter J Bickel | ||
V14666 20130919 ias interview with prof david donoho
David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957), is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the development of effective methods for the construction of low-dimensional representations for high-dimensional data problems (multiscale geometric analysis), developments of wavelets for denoising and compressed sensing.
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- V14666 20130919 ias interview with prof david donoho
- Ita 2011 keynote david donoho stanford
- Academic biography
- Awards and honors
- References
Ita 2011 keynote david donoho stanford
Academic biography
Donoho did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, graduating in 1978. His undergraduate thesis advisor was John W. Tukey. Donoho obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983, under the supervision of Peter J. Huber. He was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1990 before moving to Stanford.
He has been the Ph.D. advisor of at least 20 doctoral students, including Jianqing Fan and Emmanuel Candès.
Awards and honors
In 1991, Donoho was named a MacArthur Fellow. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was the winner of the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1994. In 2001, he won the John von Neumann Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 2002, he was appointed to the Bass professorship. He was elected a SIAM Fellow and a foreign associate of the French Académie des sciences in 2009, and in the same year received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago. In 2010 he won the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, given jointly by SIAM and the American Mathematical Society. He is also a member of the United States National Academy of Science. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2013 he was awarded the Shaw Prize for Mathematics. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Waterloo.