Daubechies came to Duke in 2010 after being on faculty at Princeton University. She served as the first female president of the International Mathematical Union from 2011 to 2014. Daubechies’ work in applied mathematics is well-known, particularly in regard to the “Daubechies wavelets”—which are integral to the JPEG image compression format.
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Undergraduate students Ellie Burton (BioPhysics/Math, Johns Hopkins University), Kevin Kuo (Electrical and Computer Engineering), and GiSeok Choi (Electrical and Computer Engineering/Math) joined a research group led by Douglas Boyer and Professor Ingrid Daubechies, testing and developing mathematical and statistical methodology for measuring similarities between bones and teeth. Faculty Lead: Ingris...
Platypus is a software solution that comes both as a standalone application and a Photoshop plugin. It is specifically designed to digitally remove cradling artifacts in X-ray images of paintings on panel. This project was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Kress foundation. Read more and download...
This is an overview of intellectual and technical adventures rooted in the project of organizing an exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) that reunites, for the first time in more than 100 years, the panels of the 14th-century Italian St. John altarpiece by Francescuccio Ghissi. A more...