David Donoho

{{Infobox scientist

| name = David L. Donoho

| image = David Donoho ICM 2018 (43006887855) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Donoho at the ICM 2018

| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1957|3|5|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, United States

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| fields = Statistics

| alma_mater = Princeton University (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Peter J. Huber

| doctoral_students = Emmanuel Candès
Jianqing Fan

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| workplaces = Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley

| awards = Shaw Prize (2013)
Gauss Prize (2018)

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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.{{cite web|title=2010 Norbert Wiener Prize|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201004/rtx100400519p.pdf|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=July 2, 2012}} Donoho obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983, under the supervision of Peter J. Huber.{{Mathgenealogy|name=David Leigh Donoho|id=18642}}. 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.{{citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/18/us/newark-priest-wins-a-genius-award.html|title=Newark Priest Wins a 'Genius' Award|journal=The New York Times|date=June 18, 1991|first=Kathleen|last=Teltsch}}. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter D|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterD.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 7, 2011}} 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.[http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/vonneumann.php The John von Neumann Lecture], SIAM, retrieved February 9, 2010. In 2002, he was appointed to the Bass professorship.[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2002/may29/endoweds-529.html Twelve professors honored with appointments to endowed chairs], Stanford Report, May 29, 2002. He was elected a SIAM Fellow[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2009#David_Leigh_Donoho SIAM Fellows], retrieved February 9, 2010. and a foreign associate of the French Académie des sciences{{Cite web |url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualites/communiques/communiques_html/elections_2009.htm |title=Actualités 2009 à l'Académie des Sciences |access-date=February 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504053105/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualites/communiques/communiques_html/elections_2009.htm |archive-date=May 4, 2010 |url-status=dead }} in 2009, and in the same year received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago.[http://magazine.amstat.org/2009/12/donohodec09/ David L. Donoho Receives Honorary Degree], AMSTAT News, American Statistical Association, December 1, 2009. In 2010 he won the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, given jointly by SIAM and the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/ams/press/wiener-2010.html David Donoho Receives 2010 AMS-SIAM Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics], American Mathematical Society, January 14, 2010. He is also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[http://www.claymath.org/fas/senior_scholars/Donoho/ Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710041817/http://www.claymath.org/fas/senior_scholars/Donoho/ |date=July 10, 2018 }} as a Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholar, retrieved February 9, 2010. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved November 10, 2012. In 2013 he was awarded the Shaw Prize for Mathematics.{{Cite web |url=http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=94 |title=2013 – Shaw Laureates – The Shaw Prize |access-date=July 9, 2013 |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710042057/http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=94 |url-status=dead }} In 2016, he was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Waterloo.{{Cite web |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/registrar/convocation/honorary-and-award-recipients/fall-2016-honorary-and-award-recipients |title=- Fall 2016 honorary and award recipients – University of Waterloo |access-date=November 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107224026/https://uwaterloo.ca/registrar/convocation/honorary-and-award-recipients/fall-2016-honorary-and-award-recipients |archive-date=November 7, 2016 |url-status=dead }} In 2018, he was awarded the Gauss Prize from IMU.

References

External links

{{MathGenealogy |id=18642 }}
[http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~donoho/ David Donoho professional home page]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20171014113612/http://www.mathunion.org/activities/icm/videos/icm-2002-beijing/ Videos on International Congress of Mathematicians 2002, Beijing]

Category:1957 births

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Category:20th-century American mathematicians

Category:21st-century American mathematicians

Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society

Category:Members of the French Academy of Sciences

Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Category:Princeton University alumni

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:MacArthur Fellows