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The Infosys Prize | |
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Awarded for | Contributions in six categories of research: |
Country | India |
Presented by | Infosys Science Foundation |
First awarded | 2008 |
Website | www |
The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India)[1] by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to recognize research. The prize for each category includes a gold medallion, a citation certificate, and prize money of US$100,000 (or its equivalent in Indian Rupees).[2] The prize purse is tax free in the hands of winners in India.[3] The winners are selected by the jury of their respective categories, headed by the jury chairs.
In 2008, the prize was jointly awarded by the Infosys Science Foundation and National Institute of Advanced Studies for mathematics.[4] The following year, three additional categories were added: Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. In 2010, Engineering and Computer Science was added as a category. In 2012, a sixth category, Humanities, was added.
Laureates in Engineering and Computer Science
The Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded annually since 2010.
Year | Laureate(s) | Institution(s) | Citation |
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2010 | Ashutosh Sharma | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the fields of surfaces and interfaces, adhesion, pattern formation, nanocomposites, materials science, and hydrodynamics, which have practical applications in such areas as energy storage, filtration, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and optoelectronics." |
2011 | Kalyanmoy Deb | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "for his work in the fields of evolutionary multi-objective optimization and genetic algorithms."[5] |
2012 | Ashish Kishore Lele | National Chemical Laboratory | Awarded "for his incisive contributions in molecular tailoring of stimuli responsive smart polymeric gels; exploring the anomalous behavior of rheologically complex fluids, and for building the bridge between macromolecular dynamics and polymer processing."[citation needed] |
2013 | V. Ramgopal Rao | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | Awarded "for his wide-ranging contributions to nanoscale electronics, for integrating chemistry with mechanics and electronics to invent new functional devices, and for innovation and entrepreneurship in creating technologies and products of societal value."[citation needed] |
2014 | Jayant Haritsa | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for being a pioneer in the design and optimization of database engines that form the core of modern enterprise information systems. His many contributions have found direct use in various types of databases including decision‑support, biological and multilingual databases, as well as produced software tools for query optimization and metadata processing."[citation needed] |
2015 | Umesh Waghmare | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | Awarded "for his innovative use of first- principles theories and modeling in insightful investigations of microscopic mechanisms responsible for specific properties of specific materials such as topological insulators, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and 2-dimensional materials like graphene."[citation needed] |
2016 | Viswanathan Kumaran | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded "for his seminal work in complex fluids and complex flows and especially in transition and turbulence in soft-walled tubes and channels."[citation needed] |
2017 | Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | Indian Statistical Institute | Awarded "for her scholarly record in algorithmic optimization and for its significant impact on biological data analysis. Her discoveries include a genetic marker for breast cancer, determination of co-occurrence of HIV and cancers and the role of white matter in Alzheimer's disease."[6] |
2018 | Navakanta Bhat | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Awarded "for his work on the design of novel biosensors based on his research in biochemistry and gaseous sensors that push the performance limits of existing metal-oxide sensors. The prize recognizes his efforts to build a state-of-the-art infrastructure for research and talent training in nanoscale systems and for developing technologies for space and national security applications."[7] |
2019 | Sunita Sarawagi | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Awarded "for her research in databases, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, and for important applications of these research techniques."[8] |
2020 | Hari Balakrishnan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded "for his broad contributions to computer networking, his seminal work on mobile and wireless systems."[9] |
2021 | Chandrasekhar Nair | Molbio Diagnostics | Awarded for "his development and large-scale commercialization of Truenat, a new point-of-care testing platform for PCR-based medical diagnostics. Dr. Nair’s work has enabled testing for millions of COVID-19 cases across resource-limited settings in India and the diagnosis of multiple infectious diseases including tuberculosis all over the world."[10] |
2022 | Suman Chakraborty | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, and Dean, Research and Development, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Awarded for "his pioneering work in elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electromechanics at the micro- and nanoscale. Using this understanding he has helped to advance healthcare in resource-limited settings through the invention of novel low-cost medical devices for sensing, diagnostics and therapeutics."[11] |
2023 | Sachchida Nand Tripathi | Professor, Joint Faculty in Civil Engineering, and Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "for the deployment of large-scale sensor-based air quality network and mobile laboratory for hyper local measurements of pollution, data generation and analysis using AI+ML for effective air quality management and citizen awareness, and for the discovery of new pathways of aerosols formation and growth that provide mechanistic understanding of haze formation."[12] |
Laureates in Humanities
The Infosys Prize in Humanities has been awarded annually since 2012.
Year | Laureate(s) | Institution(s) | Citation |
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2012 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | University of California, Los Angeles | Awarded "for his path-breaking contribution to history. He is an outstanding scholar of early-modern (1500-1800) South Asian history. He has been able to develop a new genre of 'connected history,’ involving persons, products, and social and political processes stretching from Melaka in the East to Portugal in the West."[13] |
Amit Chaudhuri | University of East Anglia | Awarded "for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail. The Infosys Prize recognizes and celebrates the intellectual reach and the quiet humanity in his extraordinary writings."[14] | |
2013 | Nayanjot Lahiri | University of Delhi | Awarded "for her outstanding contribution towards the integration of archaeological knowledge with the historical understanding of India from the earliest times. She is an exceptional scholar of proto-historic and early India. Her wide-ranging work on the past and present illuminates many aspects that include contemporary Indian society."[15] |
Ayesha Kidwai | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Awarded "for her exceptional contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics. Her research on syntactic relations in Hindi-Urdu has related wider debates in linguistics to the study of Indian languages and has extended our understanding of India's linguistic diversity."[16] | |
2014 | Shamnad Basheer | Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access and SpicyIP | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to a broad range of legal issues and legal education. He has been doing this with remarkable fair‑mindedness in assessing opposing positions taken on quintessentially controversial areas, such as intellectual property laws."[17] |
2015 | Jonardon Ganeri | New York University | Awarded "for his outstanding scholarship and originality in interpreting and scrutinizing analytical Indian Philosophy. He has thrown light on the shared ground as well as the dichotomy between Indian and Greek traditions of philosophical reasoning, thereby illuminating both."[citation needed] |
2016 | Sunil Amrith | Harvard University | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to the history of migration, environmental history, and the history of international public health, and in recognition of his field-changing research on the interrelated past of contemporary Asia."[18] |
2017 | Ananya Jahanara Kabir | King's College London | Awarded "for her highly original explorations of the long-standing historical elements - conceptual, social and cultural - in colonial modernity, and for her subtle and insightful ethnography of cultural and political life in Kashmir."[19] |
2018 | Kavita Singh | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Awarded "for her extraordinarily illuminating study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art, as well as her insightful writing on the historical function and role of museums and their significance in the increasingly fraught and conflicted social world in which visual culture exists today."[20] |
2019 | Manu Devadevan | Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi | Awarded "for his highly original and wide-ranging work on pre-modern South India."[21] |
2020 | Prachi Deshpande | Center for Studies in Social Sciences | Awarded "for her extraordinarily nuanced and highly sophisticated treatment of South Asian historiography."[9] |
2021 | Ângela Barreto Xavier | University of Lisbon, Portugal | Awarded for "her deeply researched and sophisticated analysis of conversion and violence in the Portuguese empire in India, especially Goa.Her extensive body of writings in both English and Portuguese have shown Xavier to be an important and original voice on colonial and imperial history."[22] |
2022 | Sudhir Krishnaswamy | National Law School of India University | Awarded for "his insightful understanding of the Indian Constitution, especially his carefully argued account of the importance of the landmark ‘basic structure doctrine’ adopted by the Supreme Court in 1973 that guides and constrains various efforts to amend it, while also ensuring its stability in the face of executive and legislative outcomes in India’s political life.[23] |
2023 | Jahnavi Phalkey | Science Gallery Bengaluru | Awarded for "her brilliant and granular insights into the individual, institutional, and material histories of scientific research in modern India..[24] |
Laureates in Life Sciences
The Infosys Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded annually since 2009.
Year | Laureate(s) | Institution(s) | Citation | |
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2009 | K. VijayRaghavan | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for his many contributions as a developmental geneticist and neurobiologist."[25] | |
2010 | Chetan E. Chitnis | International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | Awarded "for his pioneering work in understanding the interactions of the malarial parasite and its host, leading to the development of a viable malaria vaccine."[26] | |
2011 | Imran Siddiqi | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology | Awarded "for his breakthrough contributions to the basic understanding of clonal seed formation in plants which can be applied to revolutionize agriculture, especially in the developing world."[27] | |
2012 | Satyajit Mayor | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for new insights into regulated cell surface organization and membrane dynamics, necessary for understanding self-organization and trafficking of membrane molecules in living cells, and in signaling between cells."[28] | |
2013 | Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale | Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology | Awarded "for his work in the field of lipid metabolism in M. tuberculosis. He discovered fatty acyl AMP ligases in tubercle bacillus, their role in the generation of the lipid components of its cell wall and of their existence in other organisms, where they play a role in biosynthesis of complex molecules."[29] | |
2014 | Shubha Tole | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for her significant contributions to our understanding of how the brain's structure and circuitry are formed in the embryo. Her research uncovers common genetic mechanisms that control the development of the hippocampus, cortex and amygdala."[30] | |
2015 | Amit Prakash Sharma | International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | Awarded "for his pioneering contributions towards deciphering the molecular structure, at the atomic level, of key proteins involved in the biology of pathogenesis of the malarial parasite."[citation needed] | |
2016 | Gagandeep Kang | Translational Health Science and Technology Institute | Awarded "for her pioneering contributions to understanding the natural history of rotavirus and other infectious diseases that are important both globally and in India. Her findings have enormous implications for vaccines and other public health measures to thwart these infections."[31] | |
2017 | Upinder Singh Bhalla | National Centre for Biological Sciences | Awarded "for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the brain's computational machinery. His investigations have revealed essential neuronal computations that underlie the ability to acquire, integrate and store complex sensory information, and to utilize that information for decision and action."[32] | |
2018 | Roop Mallik | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his pioneering work on molecular motor proteins, which are crucial for the functioning of living cells. Mallik has identified and measured forces needed to transport large particles inside cells, and demonstrated their role in fundamental processes such as targeting pathogens for their destruction and moving lipid droplets for fatty acid regulation in the liver."[33] | |
2019 | Manjula Reddy | Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology | Awarded "for her groundbreaking discoveries concerning the structure of cell walls in bacteria."[34] | |
2020 | Rajan Sankaranarayanan | Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology | Awarded "for fundamental contributions towards understanding one of the most basic mechanisms in biology, the error-free translation of the genetic code to make protein molecules."[9] | |
2021 | Mahesh Sankaran | National Center for Biological Sciences, India | Awarded in "recognition of his pioneering work on the ecology of tropical savannah ecosystems, his contributions to highlighting the biodiversity of important Indian ecosystems such as the Western Ghats, and his input to international reports on climate change and biodiversity that have provided scientific evidence to policy makers."[35] | |
2022 | Vidita Vaidya | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India | Awarded "for her fundamental contributions to understanding brain mechanisms that underlie mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, including signals engaged by the neurotransmitter serotonin in causing persistent changes in behavior induced by early life stress and the role of serotonin in energy regulation in brain cells."[36] | |
2023 | Arun Kumar Shukla | Indian Institute of Technology, KanpurIIT Kanpur, | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), a key component of cell function. His studies have elegantly illustrated mechanisms that selectively activate signaling pathways downstream of GPCRs. These and other discoveries provide fundamental understanding of the context-dependent functions of GPCRs and suggest a new framework for the design of novel therapeutics."[37] |
Laureates in Mathematical Sciences
The Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences has been awarded annually since 2008.
Year | Laureate(s) | Institution(s) | Citation | |
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2008 | Manindra Agrawal | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Awarded "for his outstanding contribution in the field of complexity theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science concerned with the study of algorithms for solving mathematical and related scientific problems, and especially their efficiency and running times."[38] | |
2009 | Ashoke Sen | Harish-Chandra Research Institute | Awarded "for his fundamental contributions to Mathematical Physics, in particular, to String Theory."[39] | |
2010 | Chandrashekhar Khare | University of California, Los Angeles | Awarded "for his fundamental contributions to Number Theory, particularly his solution of the Serre conjecture."[40] | |
2011 | Kannan Soundararajan | Stanford University | Awarded "for his path breaking work in analytic number theory and development of new techniques to study critical values of general zeta functions to prove the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture for classical holomorphic forms."[41] | |
2012 | Manjul Bhargava | Princeton University | Awarded "for his extraordinarily original work in algebraic number theory. His work has revolutionized the way in which various fundamental arithmetic objects, such as number fields and elliptic curves, are understood."[42] | |
2013 | Rahul Pandharipande | ETH Zurich | Awarded "for his profound work in algebraic geometry. In particular, for his work on Gromov-Witten theory for Riemann surfaces, for predicting the connection between Gromov-Witten and Donaldson‑Thomas theories, and for his recent work with Aaron Pixton that establishes this connection for Calabi-Yau 3-folds."[43] | |
2014 | Madhu Sudan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research | Awarded "for his seminal contributions to theoretical computer science, especially in the areas of Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCP) and error‑correcting codes."[44] | |
2015 | Mahan Mj | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology and complex geometry. In particular, for establishing a central conjecture in the Thurston program to study hyperbolic 3-manifolds and introducing important new tools to study fundamental groups of complex manifolds."[45] | |
2016 | Akshay Venkatesh | Stanford University | Awarded "for his exceptionally wide-ranging, foundational and creative contributions to modern number theory. His unique ability to use wide-ranging techniques drawn from analytic number theory, ergodic theory, homotopy theory to address concrete problems in number theory and discover new phenomena attest to the essential unity of mathematics."[46] | |
2017 | Ritabrata Munshi | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to analytic aspects of number theory. Besides ingenious contributions to the Diophantine problem, he has established important estimates known as sub-convexity bounds for a large class of L-functions with methods that are powerful and original."[47] | |
2018 | Nalini Anantharaman | University of Strasbourg | Awarded "for the effective use of entropy in the study of semiclassical limits of eigenstates in quantum analogs of chaotic dynamical systems and for her work on the delocalization of eigenfunctions on large regular graphs."[48] | |
2019 | Siddhartha Mishra | ETH Zürich | Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to Applied Mathematics, in particular for designing computational methods that solve non-linear partial differential equations arising in different areas, analyzing their effectiveness and designing algorithms to implement them."[49] | |
2020 | Sourav Chatterjee | Stanford University | Awarded "for his groundbreaking work in probability and statistical physics."[9] | |
2021 | Neeraj Kayal | Microsoft Research | Awarded for "his outstanding contributions to Computational Complexity."[50] | |
2022 | Mahesh Kakde | Indian Institute of Science | Awarded for "his outstanding contributions to algebraic number theory".[51] | |
2023 | Bhargav Bhatt | University of Michigan | Awarded for "his outstanding contributions to arithmetic geometry and commutative algebra.".[52] |
Laureates in Physical Sciences
The Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences has been awarded annually since 2009.