Education
Donoho obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1983, under the supervision of Peter J. Huber.
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Donoho obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1983, under the supervision of Peter J. Huber.
His work includes the development of effective methods for the construction of low-dimensional representations for high-dimensional data problems (multiscale geometric analysis), developments of wavelets for denoising and compressed sensing. Donoho did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, graduating in 1978. His undergraduate thesis advisor was John West. Tukey.
He was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1990 before moving to Stanford.
He has been the Doctor of Philosophy advisor of at least 20 doctoral students, including Jianqing Fan and Emmanuel Candèson
American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences. French Academy of Sciences.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
He is also a member of the United States National Academy of Science.