Epidemiology is a key branch of biology that focuses on studying the occurrence and distribution of health-related issues among specific groups or regions 1. In this context, an epidemic refers to the ...

One cold, snowy day, Ingrid Daubechies saw a wealth of hidden meaning in a confused jumble of wiggly lines. Now Daubechie's wavelets are some of the hottest math around. I was in Montreal at the time, ...

Daubechies has achieved worldwide renown above all for her work in the field of wavelets and their use for digital image processing. The image format JPEG 2000 – a more-versatile and more-complex ...

A Duke professor whose work “is of tremendous importance in image compression, medical imaging, remote sensing, and digital photography” has been awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Ingrid ...

Princeton's Ingrid Daubechies has been named a co-recipient of the Pioneer Prize by the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She will be honored in July at the opening ...

Frenchman wins prestigious prize for theory that links maths, information technology and computer science French mathematician Yves Meyer was today awarded the 2017 Abel Prize for his work on wavelets ...