Bengaluru : The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced the winners of 15th edition of Infosys Prize. The award for 2023, which carries a cash award of $100,000, recognised scientists and researchers from six categories: Engineering and Computer Science; Humanities; Life Sciences; Mathematical Sciences; Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. Since its inception in 2008, the Infosys Prize has honoured the accomplishments of the recipients and awarded them for their contributions to scientific research and scholarship impacting India. The winners were shortlisted from 224 nominations by an international panel of jurors comprising world-renowned scholars and experts. The awards will be presented on January 13, 2024.
Kris Gopalakrishnan, president, Infosys Science Foundation, said, “This year marks a landmark moment in Infosys Science Foundation’s journey. Over the course of 15 years, the Infosys Prize has recognized mid-career researchers who have done impactful, groundbreaking work across disciplines. The prize has helped drive conversations around their work and, on a larger scale, created meaningful engagement around science and society. I congratulate the winners of the Infosys Prize 2023.”
Winners of the Infosys Prize 2023 :
Engineering and Computer Science: is awarded to Sachchida Nand Tripathi, Professor, Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE), IIT-Kanpur, for the deployment of large-scale sensor-based air quality network and mobile laboratory for hyper local measurement of pollution, data generation and analysis using artificial intelligence and machine learning for effective air quality management and citizens awareness.
Humanities: The Humanities is awarded to Jahnavi Phalkey, founding director, Science Gallery Bengaluru, for her granular insights into the individual, institutional, and material histories of scientific research in modern India.
Life Sciences: is awarded to Arun Kumar Shukla, Professor, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT-Kanpur, for his outstanding and far-reaching contribution to the field of G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) biology.
Mathematical Sciences: is awarded to Bhargav Bhatt, Fernholz Joint Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, for his outstanding and fundamental contribution to arithmetic geometry and commutative algebra. Prof. Bhatt’s joint work in prismatic cohomology, with German mathematician Peter Scholze, introduces new ideas and powerful methods in this area at the heart of pure mathematics.
Physical Sciences: is awarded to Mukund Thattai, Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioinformatics, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru in recognition of his groundbreaking contribution to evolutionary cell biology.
Social Sciences: is awarded to Karuna Mantena, Professor, Political Science, Columbia University for her groundbreaking research on the theory of imperial rule, and the claim that this late imperial ideology became one of the important factors in the emergence of modern social theory.
