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David Donoho

Also known as David Leigh Donoho

David Donoho is a Stanford professor whose research spans sparse signal recovery and neural collapse. He earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1978 and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991. He won the Shaw Prize in Mathematics in 2013 and the Gauss Prize in 2018. In 2022 he received the IEEE signal processing medal named for Jack Kilby, and ICLR 2022 gave an outstanding paper award to his work on neural collapse with two co-authors. As of October 2026, he is a Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.

Works
318
Citations
150,927
h-index
113

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1978

    A Princeton statistics degree

    He receives an A.B. from Princeton University in 1978, having written an undergraduate thesis with John Tukey as his advisor.

  2. 1991

    A MacArthur Fellowship

    In 1991 he receives a MacArthur Fellowship.

  3. 2013

    The Shaw Prize in Mathematics

    The Shaw Prize in Mathematics honors him in 2013 for work on statistical estimation in noise and on sparse representation.

  4. 2018

    The Gauss Prize

    The 2018 Gauss Prize goes to him for mathematical contributions with important applications beyond the mathematical field.

  5. 2022

    A Kilby signal processing medal

    He receives the 2022 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for work on sparse signal recovery and compressed sensing.

  6. 2022

    An ICLR outstanding paper

    In 2022 ICLR gives an outstanding paper award to the paper Neural Collapse Under MSE Loss, which he co-authors with X.Y. Han and Vardan Papyan.

  7. As of October 2026

    Bass Professor at Stanford

    He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.

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  1. David Donoho - MacArthur Foundation macfound.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. David Donoho (1957 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. ICM News | ICM 2018 mathunion.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. David Donoho receives 2013 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences | IEEE Information Theory Society itsoc.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. 2022 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for David Donoho | Department of Statistics statistics.stanford.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Investigating neural collapse in deep classification networks - AIhub aihub.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. ICLR 2022 Awards iclr.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. David Donoho's Profile | Stanford Profiles profiles.stanford.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.