Ronald Coifman
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Phillips Professor of MathematicsLicense en Sciences Mathematiques, 1962
Ph.D., University of Geneva, 1965
Joined Yale Faculty 1980

Office Location: AKW 108a
Telephone: 203.432.1213

Ronald Coifman’s research interests include: nonlinear Fourier analysis, wavelet theory, singular integrals, numerical analysis and scattering theory, real and complex analysis; new mathematical tools for efficient computation and transcriptions of physical data, with applications to numerical analysis, feature extraction recognition and denoising. He is currently developing analysis tools for spectrometric diagnostics and hyperspectral imaging.

Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the 1996 DARPA Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999 National Medal of Science.

Representative Publications:
	"Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis," 10,#1, with F. Geshwind, Y. Meyer, Noiselets, Jan 2001, pp. 27-44.
	"On zerotree quantization for embedded wavelet packet image coding," with N. Rajpoot, F. Meyer, R. Wilson, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Image Processing, Piscataway, NJ, 2:283-7.
	"Adaptive solution of multidimensional PDE via tensor product wavelet decomposition," with A. Averbuch, G. Beylkin, P. Fisher, M. Israeli, To be published in ACHA, 2000.
	"The pseudopolar FFT and its applications," with A. Averbuch, R. Coifman, D. Donoho, M. Israeli, J. Walden, Research Report YALEU/DCS/RR-1178, 1999.