Princeton University
Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Fine Hall, Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544-1000 USA

Date and place of birth: August 17, 1954 in Houthalen, Belgium
Citizenship: Belgian Citizen and US Naturalized Citizen, 1996

Education:

• 1975: Bachelor's degree in Physics; Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• 1980: Ph.D. in Physics; Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Positions Held:

• 1975 to 1984: Research Assistant; Dept. for Theoretical Physics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• 1984 to 1987: Research Professor; Dept. for Theoretical Physics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• 1987 to 1994: Technical Staff Member; Mathematics Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories
• 1991 to 1994: Professor; Mathematics Department, Rutgers University
• 1993 to present: Professor; Mathematics Department and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
• 1997 to 2001: Director; Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

Awards and Honors:

• Louis Empain Prize for Physics (Belgium, 1984)
• Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1992 to 1997)
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1993)
• American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Exposition (1994)
• American Mathematical Society Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize (1997)
• The International Society for Optical Engineering Recognition of Outstanding Achievement (1998)
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1998)
• IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation (1998)
• Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (1998)
• Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1999)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles (2000)
• National Academy of Sciences Medal in Mathematics (2000)
• Eduard Rhein Foundation 2000 Basic Research Award for the invention, the mathematical advancement and the application of wavelets (2000)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne (2001)
• Honorific Degree in Mathematics in Lusanne, Switzerland (2001)
• William R. Kenan, Jr. Professorship at Princeton University (2004)

Research Interests:

• Time-Frequency Analysis (in particular, Wavelets) and applications.