Ingrid Daubechies
Ingrid Daubechies (born August 17, 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
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Education
Ingrid Daubechies completed her undergraudate studies in physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1975. She continued her research at that institution as an assistant researcher until 1984, when she assumed the title of assistant professor.
Career and research
In 1987 Daubechies moved to the United States, taking a position at one of AT&T Bell Laboratories' New Jersey facilities. In that same year, she made her best-known discovery: the construction of compactly supported continuous wavelets. This development led to applications in image compression, including the Daubechies wavelet used in the JPEG 2000 standard.
Since 1993, Daubechies has been a full professor at Princeton University.
Personal life
Ingrid Daubechies was born in Houthalen, Belgium. She married in 1987.