Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University’s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, was named a co-recipient of the Pioneer Prize by the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
She will be honored at the organization’s conference in July for her work, and will share the $1,000 Pioneer Prize with Heinz Engl of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. The award is given to recognize the use of computing and mathematical techniques to approach an industrial problem or scientific discipline.
Professor Daubechies has been on the university faculty since 1994. Her research includes the study of wavelets a type of mathematical function in time-frequency analysis which can be used in data compression.

