David Donoho

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::summary American statistician ::

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Field	Value
name	David L. Donoho
image	David Donoho ICM 2018 (43006887855) (cropped).jpg
caption	Donoho at the ICM 2018
birth_date
birth_place	Los Angeles, California, United States
death_date
fields	Statistics
alma_mater	Princeton University (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
doctoral_advisor	Peter J. Huber
doctoral_students	Emmanuel Candès
Jianqing Fan
workplaces	Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
awards	Shaw Prize (2013)
Gauss Prize (2018)
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| name = David L. Donoho | image = David Donoho ICM 2018 (43006887855) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Donoho at the ICM 2018 | birth_date = | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | death_date = | death_place = | fields = Statistics | alma_mater = Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = Peter J. Huber | doctoral_students = Emmanuel Candès Jianqing Fan | known_for = | workplaces = Stanford University University of California, Berkeley | awards = Shaw Prize (2013) Gauss Prize (2018)

David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He 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), development of wavelets for denoising and compressed sensing. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

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 Sciences. 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. In 2018, he was awarded the Gauss Prize from IMU.

References

References

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