:Ingrid Daubechies

Daubechies was born in Houthalen, Belgium, as the daughter of Simonne Duran (a criminologist) and Marcel Daubechies (a civil mining engineer).{{Cite web |url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20120815_00258845 |title=Diamant voor Simonne en Marcel |work=Het Nieuwsblad |access-date=17 November 2018 |archive-date=24 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424124301/https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20120815_00258845 |url-status=live }} She 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. Thus, as a child, she already familiarized herself with the properties of exponential growth. Her parents found out that mathematical conceptions, such as cone and tetrahedron, were familiar to her before she reached the age of six. She excelled at the primary school and was moved up a grade after only three months. After completing the Lyceum in Hasselt,Daubechies herself, quoted in Flanders Today #15, October 2014, available [http://www.flanderstoday.eu/innovation/flemish-professor-how-maths-can-change-world here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404113611/http://www.flanderstoday.eu/innovation/flemish-professor-how-maths-can-change-world |date=4 April 2019 }}. Retrieved 19 August 2017. she entered the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at age 17.{{cite AV media |title=Alles voor de wetenschap: Aflevering 5: Ingrid Daubechies |trans-title=Everything for the science: Episode 5: Ingrid Daubechies |medium=Television production |language=nl |url=http://www.canvas.be/programmas/alles-voor-de-wetenschap/server1-12e79af5%3A12dbd4474d6%3A-6fc8 |date=27 February 2011 |time=21:40 |publisher=Canvas |location=Belgium |access-date=4 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302091400/http://www.canvas.be/programmas/alles-voor-de-wetenschap/server1-12e79af5:12dbd4474d6:-6fc8 |archive-date=2 March 2013}}

Daubechies completed her undergraduate studies in physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1975. During the next few years, she visited the CNRS Center for Theoretical Physics in Marseille several times, where she collaborated with Alex Grossmann; this work was the basis for her doctorate in quantum mechanics. She obtained her PhD in theoretical physics in 1980 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/457/|title=Ingrid Daubechies|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=8 February 2020|archive-date=27 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327201947/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/457/|url-status=live}}

After completing her doctorate, Daubechies continued her research career at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel until 1987, rising through the ranks to positions roughly equivalent with research assistant-professor in 1981 and research associate-professor 1985, funded by a fellowship from the NFWO (Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek).{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ingrid-daubechies/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Ingrid Daubechies|language=en-US|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-date=21 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421041029/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ingrid-daubechies/|url-status=live}}

Daubechies spent most of 1986 as a guest-researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York. At Courant she made her best-known discovery: based on quadrature mirror filter-technology she constructed compactly supported continuous wavelets that would require only a finite amount of processing, in this way enabling wavelet theory to enter the realm of digital signal processing.{{Cite web|url=https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/daub.htm|title=Ingrid Daubechies|website=www.agnesscott.edu|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-date=13 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213132859/https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/daub.htm|url-status=live}}

In July 1987, Daubechies joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1988, she published the result of her research on orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics.I. Daubechies, [http://www.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/cpam41-1988.pdf Orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets], Comm. Pure & Appl. Math., 41 (7), pp. 909–996, 1988.

In 1991, Daubechies was appointed as a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where she taught in their mathematics department. She remained there through 1994.

Daubechies moved to Princeton University in 1994, where she was active within the program in applied and computational mathematics. In 2004, she was named as the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor there.{{Cite web |date=30 November 2012 |title=Daubechies transfers to emeritus status |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2012/11/30/daubechies-transfers-emeritus-status |access-date=5 January 2024 |website=Princeton University |language=en |archive-date=5 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105195500/https://www.princeton.edu/news/2012/11/30/daubechies-transfers-emeritus-status |url-status=live }} She 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.{{cite web | title=Ingrid Daubechies | website=Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering | date=2022-03-11 | url=https://ece.duke.edu/faculty/ingrid-daubechies | access-date=2022-12-04 | archive-date=5 June 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605003229/https://ece.duke.edu/faculty/ingrid-daubechies | url-status=live }} In 2016, she and Heekyoung Hahn{{cite web | title=Heekyoung Hahn – Scholars@Duke | website=Scholars@Duke | date=2016-06-15 | url=https://math.duke.edu/people/heekyoung-hahn | access-date=2022-12-04 | archive-date=1 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801215517/https://math.duke.edu/people/heekyoung-hahn | url-status=live }} founded Duke Summer Workshop in Mathematics (SWIM) for rising high school seniors who were female.{{cite web |url=https://services.math.duke.edu/SWIM/SWIM2016/index.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613034434/https://services.math.duke.edu/SWIM/SWIM2016/index.html |archive-date=13 June 2016}}{{Cite web|title=Summer Workshop in Mathematics – for female high school students|url=https://sites.duke.edu/swim/|language=en-US|access-date=18 May 2020|archive-date=2 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702152602/https://sites.duke.edu/swim/|url-status=live}}

In 2020 and 2021 Daubechies, along with fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann, led a team of mathematicians and artists who collectively built the touring art and math installation known as Mathemalchemy.[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mathemalchemy-a-mathematical-and-artistic-adventure/id852374699?i=1000529408245 Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515053616/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mathemalchemy-a-mathematical-and-artistic-adventure/id852374699?i=1000529408245 |date=15 May 2022 }} Oxford University: Mathemalchemy Podcast

Daubechies has used mathematical techniques on multiple art restoration projects. Her team worked on restoring the Ghent Altarpiece, a massive fifteenth-century work of art consisting of 12 panels that are attributed to the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Daubechies and several colleagues developed new mathematical techniques to both reverse the effects of aging upon the artworks and untangle and remove the effects of past ill-fated conservation efforts. Using highly precise photographs and X-rays of the panels as well as various filtering methods, the team of mathematicians found an automatic way to detect the cracks caused by aging. They also were able to decipher the apparent text of the polyptych, which was attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

Daubechies and her collaborators also contributed to the restoration of the fourteenth-century Saint John Altarpiece by Francescuccio Ghissi in the North Carolina Museum of Art, applying some of the techniques they discovered working on the Ghent Altarpiece restoration. With this project the mathematicians used machine-learning algorithms to separate features.{{cite web | title=Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece | website=Quanta Magazine | date=29 September 2016 | url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-mathematics-to-repair-a-masterpiece-20160929/ | ref={{sfnref | Quanta Magazine | 2016}} | access-date=6 August 2021 | archive-date=22 September 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922160726/https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-mathematics-to-repair-a-masterpiece-20160929 | url-status=live }}

Daubechies received the Louis Empain Prize for Physics in 1984. It is awarded once every five years to a Belgian scientist on the basis of work done before the age of 29.{{Cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Daubechies.html|title=Ingrid Daubechies biography|website=www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-date=24 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324151357/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Daubechies.html|url-status=live}}

In 1992, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 1993, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Ingrid Daubechies |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1992/ingrid-daubechies |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=www.macfound.org |language=en |archive-date=28 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528112458/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1992/ingrid-daubechies |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|title=Ingrid Chantal Daubechies|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/ingrid-chantal-daubechies|access-date=31 August 2021|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831155225/https://www.amacad.org/person/ingrid-chantal-daubechies|url-status=live}} In 1994, she received the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Exposition for her book, Ten Lectures on Wavelets, and was invited to give a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich. In 1997, she was awarded the AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter prize.{{cite journal | journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society | title=1997 Satter Prize | date=March 1997 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=348–349 | url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199703/comm-satter.pdf | access-date=December 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/pabrowse#year=1997|title=American Mathematical Society|website=www.ams.org|language=en-US|access-date=29 March 2018|archive-date=30 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330012530/http://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/pabrowse#year=1997|url-status=live}} In 1998, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences[http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/1753239219?pg=vprof&mbr=1001102&returl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F1753239219%3Fpg%3Dsrch%26view%3Dbasic&retmk=search_again_link Personal entry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629031650/http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/1753239219?pg=vprof&mbr=1001102&returl=http:%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F1753239219%3Fpg=srch&view=basic&retmk=search_again_link |date=29 June 2011 }}, United States National Academy of Sciences and won the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society.{{cite web |url=http://www.itsoc.org/honors/golden-jubilee-awards-for-technological-innovation |title=Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation |publisher=IEEE Information Theory Society |access-date=14 July 2011 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721221646/http://www.itsoc.org/honors/golden-jubilee-awards-for-technological-innovation |url-status=live }} She became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/4013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129220224/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/4013 |title=Ingrid Daubechies |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date=29 January 2016 |access-date=29 January 2016}}

In 2000, 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.{{Cite web|title=Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics|url=http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/mathematics.html|access-date=31 August 2021|website=www.nasonline.org|archive-date=1 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001065758/http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/mathematics.html|url-status=live}} The award honored her "for fundamental discoveries on wavelets and wavelet expansions and for her role in making wavelets methods a practical basic tool of applied mathematics".{{Cite journal|last=Jackson|first=Allyn|date=May 2000|title=Ingrid Daubechies Receives NAS Award in Mathematics|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200005/comm-nas.pdf|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=47|pages=571|via=American Mathematical Society|number=5|access-date=28 April 2021|archive-date=3 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303155943/https://www.ams.org/notices/200005/comm-nas.pdf|url-status=live}} She was awarded the Basic Research Award of the German Eduard Rhein Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/Preistraeger_e.html |title=Award Winners (chronological) |publisher=Eduard Rhein Foundation |access-date=6 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718233021/http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/Preistraeger_e.html |archive-date=18 July 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/2000/G00_e.html |title=Basic Research Award 2000 – Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Ingrid Daubechies |publisher=Eduard Rhein Foundation |access-date=6 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234059/http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/2000/G00_e.html |archive-date=18 July 2011}} as well as the NAS Award in Mathematics.{{cite web|title=NAS Award in Mathematics |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_mathematics |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=13 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195210/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_mathematics |archive-date=29 December 2010}} In 2003, Daubechies was elected to the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Ingrid+Daubechies&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=31 August 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200344/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Ingrid%20Daubechies&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|url-status=live}}

In January 2005, Daubechies became the third woman since 1924 to give the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture sponsored by the American Mathematical Society. Her talk was on "The Interplay Between Analysis and Algorithm". Daubechies was the 2006 Emmy Noether Lecturer at the San Antonio Joint Mathematics Meetings.{{cite web |url=http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/TOC.html |title=The Emmy Noether Lectures |publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics |access-date=3 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426055805/http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/TOC.html |archive-date=26 April 2009 |url-status=dead }} In September 2006, the Pioneer Prize from the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was awarded jointly to Daubechies and Heinz Engl.

In 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors|title=Honorary Doctors|website=www.ntnu.edu|language=en|access-date=30 August 2018|archive-date=23 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623205927/https://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors|url-status=live}} In 2011, Daubechies was the SIAM John von Neumann Lecturer,{{cite web|title=Ingrid Daubechies of Duke University awarded the John von Neumann Lecture Prize at ICIAM 2011|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/sfia-ido072811.php|website=EurekAlert|access-date=26 April 2017|language=en|date=28 July 2011|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124103/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/sfia-ido072811.php|url-status=dead}} and was awarded the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal,{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/kilby_rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619214057/http://ieee.org/documents/kilby_rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 June 2010 |title=IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Recipients |publisher=IEEE |access-date=27 February 2011}} the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society,{{cite journal |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201104/rtx110400593p.pdf |title=2011 Steele Prizes |journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=593–596 |date=April 2011 |access-date=29 September 2011 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801215517/http://www.ams.org/notices/201104/rtx110400593p.pdf |url-status=live }} and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering from the Franklin Institute.{{cite web |url=http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/11/bf_elecengineer.html |title=Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering |year=2011 |publisher=Franklin Institute |access-date=23 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802094706/http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/11/bf_elecengineer.html |archive-date=2 August 2012}} In 2012, King Albert II of Belgium granted Daubechies the title of Baroness.{{cite web|url=http://diplomatie.belgium.be/nl/Newsroom/Nieuws/Perscommuniques/buitenlandse_zaken/2012/07/ni_160712_adellijke_gunsten.jsp?referer=tcm:314-188945-64|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191454/http://diplomatie.belgium.be/nl/Newsroom/Nieuws/Perscommuniques/buitenlandse_zaken/2012/07/ni_160712_adellijke_gunsten.jsp?referer=tcm:314-188945-64|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Adellijke gunsten|publisher=Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs}} She also won the 2012 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics awarded by Northwestern University,{{cite web |url=http://www.nemmers.northwestern.edu/mathematics.html |title=The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=27 April 2013 |archive-date=5 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005170907/https://www.nemmers.northwestern.edu/mathematics.html |url-status=live }}

and the 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category (jointly with David Mumford).

Daubechies gave the Gauss Lecture of the German Mathematical Society in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.myscience.de/en/wire/gauss_vorlesung_an_der_schnittstelle_zwischen_kunst_und_mathematik-2015-uni-muenster|title=Gauß-Vorlesung: An der Schnittstelle zwischen Kunst und Mathematik|website=www.myscience.de|date=16 October 2015|language=en|access-date=29 March 2018|archive-date=30 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330013045/https://www.myscience.de/en/wire/gauss_vorlesung_an_der_schnittstelle_zwischen_kunst_und_mathematik-2015-uni-muenster|url-status=live}} The Simons Foundation, a private foundation based in New York City that funds research in mathematics and the basic sciences, gave Daubechies the Math + X Investigator award, which provides money to professors at American and Canadian universities to encourage new partnerships between mathematicians and researchers in other fields of science. She was the one to suggest to Simons that the foundation should fund better mechanisms for interpreting existing data, rather than new research.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/jim-simons-the-numbers-king|title=Jim Simons, the Numbers King|last=Max|first=D. T.|date=11 December 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=3 February 2018|language=en|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204070406/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/jim-simons-the-numbers-king|url-status=live}} Also in 2015, Daubechies was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the mathematics and applications of wavelets".

In 2018, Daubechies won the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong (CityU). She is the first woman to be the recipient of the award. Prize officials cited the pioneering work of Daubechies in wavelet theory and her "exceptional contributions to a wide spectrum of scientific and mathematical subjects" and noted that "her work in enabling the mobile smartphone revolution is truly symbolic of the era".{{Cite web|url=http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/rcms/wbp/laureates_2018.html|title=Notable mathematician of our time awarded CityU's William Benter Prize|last=Law|first=Emily|website=City University of Hong Kong}} Also in 2018, Daubechies was awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award ($440,000) for her work on wavelets.{{Cite web |url=https://math.duke.edu/news/2018-fudan-zhongzhi-science-award-presented-professor-ingrid-daubechies|title=2018 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award presented to Professor Ingrid Daubechies |publisher=Duke University |quote=The 2018 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award has been awarded to Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. The award is presented for her remarkable contributions to wavelets, especially the orthogonal Daubechies wavelet and the biorthogonal CDF (Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau) wavelet|date=2018 |access-date=25 February 2020}}

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.{{citation|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2019-awm-fellows/|title=2019 Class of AWM Fellows|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-date=27 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127102254/https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2019-awm-fellows/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=2018 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award Announcement |url=http://fdsif.fudan.edu.cn/en/?p=757 |website=Fudan Science and Engineering Forum |access-date=11 August 2019 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226062604/http://fdsif.fudan.edu.cn/en/?p=757 |url-status=dead }} Daubechies was named the North American Laureate of 2019 L'Oréal-UNESCO International Award For Women in Science. Since 1998, the annual worldwide award recognizes five outstanding women in chemistry, physics, materials science, mathematics, and computer science.{{Cite web|title=Ingrid Daubechies: a mathematical revolution for data compression|url=https://en.unesco.org/news/ingrid-daubechies-mathematical-revolution-data-compression|date=13 March 2019|website=UNESCO|language=en|access-date=18 May 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801203010/https://en.unesco.org/news/ingrid-daubechies-mathematical-revolution-data-compression|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=This Groundbreaking Mathematician Wants You to Pursue a Career in STEM|url=https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/a26822412/ingrid-daubechies-loreal-unesco-award-for-women-in-science-2019/|last=Epstein|first=Rachel|date=14 March 2019|website=Marie Claire|language=en-US|access-date=18 May 2020}} Also in 2019, she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.{{cite web|title=Ingrid Daubechies|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/ingrid-daubechies/|publisher=German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina|access-date=26 May 2021|archive-date=26 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526183643/https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/ingrid-daubechies/|url-status=live}}

Daubechies received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 2020.{{cite web|title=Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao and Emmanuel Candès, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2020|publisher=Princess of Asturias Foundation|url=https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-yves-meyer-ingrid-daubechies-terence-tao-and-emmanuel-candes.html|access-date=23 June 2020|archive-date=26 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626135512/https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-yves-meyer-ingrid-daubechies-terence-tao-and-emmanuel-candes.html|url-status=dead}}

In 2023, she was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics "for work in wavelet theory and applied harmonic analysis”.

{{Cite web |url=https://wolffund.org.il/home-page/ |title=Wolf Prize in Mathematics 2023 |access-date=7 February 2023 |archive-date=4 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204094216/https://wolffund.org.il/home-page/ |url-status=live }} She was the first woman to receive this award.{{Cite web|url=https://wolffund.org.il/2023/02/07/ingrid-daubechies/|title=Ingrid Daubechies|website=Wolf Foundation|access-date=2 March 2023|archive-date=7 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207155330/https://wolffund.org.il/2023/02/07/ingrid-daubechies/|url-status=dead}}

In 2024, Daubechies received an honorary Doctor of Sciences from University of Pennsylvania{{Cite web |title=Penn's 2024 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients Announced |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/penns-2024-commencement-speaker-and-honorary-degree-recipients-announced |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=almanac.upenn.edu |language=en |archive-date=26 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326070425/https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/penns-2024-commencement-speaker-and-honorary-degree-recipients-announced |url-status=live }}

and a honorary degree from Amherst College.{{cite web | title=Amherst College Commencement Ceremony 2024 | website=Amherst College | date=26 May 2024 | url=https://www.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2024/may/unapologetic-hope-and-unfettered-curiosity | access-date=11 December 2024}}

Daubechies has been awarded The Bakerian Medal and Lecture 2025 for her work on wavelets and image compression and her exceptional contributions to a wide spectrum of physical, technological, and mathematical applications.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-29 |title=Bakerian Medal and Lecture {{!}} Royal Society |url=https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/bakerian-lecture/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=royalsociety.org |language=en |archive-date=3 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203105209/https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/bakerian-lecture/ |url-status=live }}

In January 2025, Daubechies was a recipient of the National Medal of Science.{{cite web | author=The White House | title=President Biden Honors Nation's Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators | website=The White House | date=3 January 2025 | url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/03/president-biden-honors-nations-leading-scientists-technologists-and-innovators/ | access-date=4 January 2025}}

In 1985, 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. They married in 1987.{{Cite web|url=http://comeseedaubechies.weebly.com/personal-life.html|title=Personal Life|website=Ingrid Daubechies|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-date=27 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127035453/https://comeseedaubechies.weebly.com/personal-life.html|url-status=live}} They have two children, Michael Calderbank and Carolyn Calderbank.

• {{cite book|title=Ten Lectures on Wavelets|publisher=SIAM|location=Philadelphia|year=1992|isbn=0-89871-274-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/tenlecturesonwav0000daub}}{{cite journal|author=Meyer, Yves|author-link=Yves Meyer|title=Review: An introduction to wavelets, by Charles K. Chui; Ten lectures on wavelets, by Ingrid Daubechies|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=1993|volume=28|issue=2|pages=350–360|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1993-28-02/S0273-0979-1993-00363-X/|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00363-X|doi-access=free|access-date=28 April 2021|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809011858/https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1993-28-02/S0273-0979-1993-00363-X/|url-status=live}}
• [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cpa.3160410705 Orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets]{{Cite journal|last=Daubechies|first=Ingrid|date=October 1988|title=Orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets|journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics|language=en|volume=41|issue=7|pages=909–996|doi=10.1002/cpa.3160410705}} 1988, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Journal: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume41, Issue 7.
• D. Aerts and I. Daubechies, [https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/hpa-52-1979.pdf A connection between propositional systems in Hilbert spaces and von Neumann algebras],{{Cite web|url=https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/index.html|title=Ingrid Daubechies' Publication List|website=services.math.duke.edu|access-date=8 February 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801202544/https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/index.html|url-status=live}} Helv. Phys. Acta, 52, pp. 184–199, 1979.
• D. Aerts and I. Daubechies, [https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/LMP_3_1979.pdf A characterization of subsystems in physics], Lett. Math. Phys., 3 (1), pp. 11–17, 1979.
• [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpa.20303 Iteratively reweighted least squares minimization for sparse recovery]{{Cite journal|last1=Daubechies|first1=Ingrid|last2=DeVore|first2=Ronald|last3=Fornasier|first3=Massimo|last4=Güntürk|first4=C. Si̇nan|date=January 2010|title=Iteratively reweighted least squares minimization for sparse recovery|journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics|language=en|volume=63|issue=1|pages=1–38|doi=10.1002/cpa.20303|arxiv=0807.0575|s2cid=7726508}} 2009, Periodicals, Inc. Journal: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 63, Issue1.
• Cohen, I. Daubechies, and A. Ron, [https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/ACHA_3_1996.pdf How smooth is the smoothest function in a given refinable space?], Appl. Comp. Harm. Anal., 3 (1), pp. 87–89, 1996.
• I. Daubechies, S. Jaffard, and J.L. Journe, [https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/SIAM22-1991.pdf A simple Wilson orthonormal basis with exponential decay], SIAM J. Math. Anal., 22 (2), pp. 554–572, 1991.

• Image compression
• Digital cinema
• [https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/06/12/making-wavelets-a-profile-of-ingrid-daubechies/ Digital art restoration]{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/06/12/making-wavelets-a-profile-of-ingrid-daubechies/|title=Making Wavelets: A Profile of Ingrid Daubechies|date=12 June 2019|website=Simons Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=8 February 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801202544/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/06/12/making-wavelets-a-profile-of-ingrid-daubechies/|url-status=live}}
• Biological morphology{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2012/12/22/animation-teeth-and-skeletons/|title=Animation, Teeth and Skeletons: Ingrid Daubechies' 2012 Talk on Algorithms for Biological Morphology|date=21 December 2012|website=Simons Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=8 February 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801200702/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2012/12/22/animation-teeth-and-skeletons/|url-status=live}}

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• I. Daubechies, [http://web.njit.edu/~akansu/s1.htm A Different Way to Look at Subband Coding], NJIT Symposium on Multi-Resolution Signal Decomposition Techniques: Wavelets, Subbands and Transforms, April 1990.
• [http://www.girlsangle.org/page/bulletin.html An Interview with Ingrid Daubechies] in the Girls' Angle Bulletin, volume 1, number 6 and volume 2, numbers 1 through 4.
• [http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/daub.htm "Ingrid Daubechies", Biographies of Women Mathematicians], Agnes Scott College
• {{MacTutor Biography|id=Daubechies}}
• [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/ingrid Ingrid Daubechies' homepage] at Duke University

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