David L. Donoho | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Donoho at the ICM 2018 | |
| Born | March 5, 1957 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Awards | Shaw Prize (2013) Gauss Prize (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter J. Huber |
| Doctoral students | Emmanuel Candès Jianqing Fan |
David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences.[1] His work includes the development of effective methods for the construction of low-dimensional representations for high-dimensional data problems (multiscale geometric analysis), development of wavelets for denoising and compressed sensing. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.