It is the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers Established by the U.S. Congress in 1959, the National Medal of Science is the highest possible recognition bestowed on ...

Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke distinguished professor emerita of mathematics, was named a recipient of the National Medal of Science by President Joe Biden for her trailblazing work on signal ...

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. Picturing her struggling ...

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 ...