Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor

I am a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor at Duke University's math department as well as at the Rhodes Interdisciplinary Initiative, working with Prof. Ingrid Daubechies. In 2021 I completed my Ph.D. at the Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. David Levin and Prof. Yoel Shkolnisky.

My research interests span several areas, including numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, robust and statistically significant analysis of high-dimensional data. I strive to explore new challenges that arise from high-dimensional data as well as study the story that the data geometry tells by modeling the data and posing new mathematical tools. In particular, my research is in approximation theory in low and high-dimensions, geometric methods for manifold reconstruction, studying the geometry of the base manifold and its fibers, computer vision, image processing.
Notable applications of my current and past research include archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, Bible studies, art investigation, and general history. By applying my research to these diverse areas, I aim to contribute valuable insights and shed light on long debated questions.

My publication list (and most online available papers) can be viewed on Google Scholar.

I am co-organizing the AMS Special Session on Computational techniques to study the geometry of the shape space at Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in San Francisco, CA on Jan 3-6 2024. Registration is open!

Contact Info: 

Office Location:	Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 2800
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://services.math.duke.edu/~ag617/ https://shirafaigen.wixsite.com/ostraca/in-the-press

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• MATH 181.02, MATH EVERYWHERE Synopsis

  Gross Hall 330, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Tel Aviv University (Israel)	2021
M.S.	Tel Aviv University (Israel)	2014
B.A.Sc.	Tel Aviv University (Israel)	2006

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Faigenbaum-Golovin, S; Levin, D, Manifold reconstruction and denoising from scattered data in high dimension, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 421 (March, 2023), pp. 114818-114818, Elsevier BV [doi]
2. Faigenbaum-Golovin, S; Levin, D, Approximation of functions on manifolds in high dimension from noisy scattered data, Jaen Journal on Approximation, vol. 13 (December, 2022), pp. 43-73, Universidad de Jaen Campus Las Lagunillas
3. Faigenbaum-Golovin, S; Shimshi, O, Image quality assessment: Learning to rank image distortion level, Electronic Imaging, vol. 34 no. 9 (January, 2022), Society for Imaging Science & Technology [doi]
4. Faigenbaum-Golovin, S; Shaus, A; Sober, B, Computational Handwriting Analysis of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions – A Survey, IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine (2022), pp. 1-15, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [doi]
5. Daubechies, I; DeVore, R; Dym, N; Faigenbaum-Golovin, S; Kovalsky, SZ; Lin, K-C; Park, J; Petrova, G; Sober, B, Neural Network Approximation of Refinable Functions, vol. abs/2107.13191 (July, 2021)  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• Shira Golovin AMS Travel Grant, American Mathematical Society, 2023/07-2025/06.