Country India | First awarded 2008 | |
Awarded for contributions in six categories:
Engineering and Computer Science
Humanities
Life Science
Mathematical Science
Physical Science
Social Science Presented by Infosys Science Foundation Official website | ||
The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists in India by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to recognize scientific research. The Prize was originally given across five categories: Engineering and Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences but a sixth category – the Humanities – was added in 2012. The prize for each category includes a gold medallion, a citation certificate, and prize money of Rs. 55 Lakh (over US$90000).
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Laureates for the year 2015
The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) on 16 November 2015 announced the winners of the Infosys Prize 2015.
Engineering and Computer Science – Umesh Waghmare, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
Humanities – Jonardon Ganeri, Professor, Global Network Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New York University and Recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, London.
Life Science – Amit Sharma, Professor and Head at Structural and Computational Biology group at international center for Genetic Engineering & Biology (ICGEB), New Delhi.
Mathematical Sciences – Mahan Mj, Professor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belūr/TIFR Mumbai.
Physical Sciences – G. Ravindra Kumar Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Social Sciences – Srinath Raghavan, Professor, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Laureates for the year 2014
Infosys Science Foundation announced the names of Infosys Prize 2014 winners for six categories on 13 November 2014.
Engineering and Computer Science – Jayant Haritsa, Professor, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Humanities – Shamnad Basheer, Founder and Managing Trustee, Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA), Bengaluru and Founder, SpicyIP
Life Sciences – Shubha Tole, Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
Mathematical Sciences – Madhu Sudan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Physical Sciences – Srivari Chandrasekhar, Chief Scientist and Head, Division of Natural Products Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
Social Sciences – Esther Duflo, Professor, Department of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laureates for the year 2013
The winners of the Infosys Prize 2013 were announced on 12 November 2013 in each of the following six categories
Engineering & Computer Science V. Ramgopal Rao, Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering; and Chief Investigator, Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Humanities – Archaeology Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.
Humanities – Linguistics Ayesha Kidwai, Professor, Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Life Sciences Rajesh S. Gokhale, Director, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi.
Mathematical Sciences Rahul Pandharipande, of Professor, Department of Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich.
Physical Sciences Shiraz Minwalla, Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.
Social Sciences – Sociology and Anthropology Aninhalli R. Vasavi, of Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.
Jury Chairs (2012–2013)
2012
The winners of the Infosys Prize 2012 were announced on 23 November 2012 in each of the following six categories
Engineering & Computer Science Ashish Kishore Lele, of National Chemical Laboratories, Pune.
Humanities – History Sanjay Subrahmanyam, of University of California.
Humanities – Literary Studies Amit Chaudhuri of University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Life Sciences Satyajit Mayor, of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.
Mathematical Sciences Manjul Bhargava, of Princeton University.
Physical Sciences Ayyappanpillai Ajayagosh, of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology.
Social Sciences Arunava Sen, of Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
The award ceremony was held on January 3, 2013, in New Delhi. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway and former Director General of the World Health Organization, felicitated the winners.
2011
The winners of the Infosys Prize 2011 were announced on 16 November 2011 in each of the following five categories:
Engineering & Computer Science Kalyanmoy Deb, Professor of Mechanical engineering at IIT Kanpur received the award for his work in the fields of evolutionary multi-objective optimization and genetic algorithms.
Life Sciences Imran Siddiqi of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad got the prize for Life Sciences in recognition of contributions to the understanding of formation of clonal seeds in plants.
Mathematical Sciences Kannan Soundararajan, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, was awarded the prize in Mathematical Sciences category for his work on number theory.
Physical Sciences Sriram Ramaswamy of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore won the award for Physical Sciences for his research on various aspects of the collective behaviour of living systems ranging from bacteria to schools of fish in the ocean.
Social Sciences – Economics Prof. Raghuram Govind Rajan from the University of Chicago got the award for his analysis of "the complex interaction between financial institutions, governments and people."
Social Sciences – Political Science and International Relations Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and Chief Executive of the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi was given the award for "broadening public discussion of important social, political and economic matters, bringing in heterodox perspectives" and for constantly "challenging reigning orthodoxies."
The award ceremony was held on 9 January 2012 at which the winners were felicitated by the 11th Indian President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
2010
Engineering & Computer Science Ashutosh Sharma, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Mathematical Sciences Prof. Chandrashekhar Khare, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Life Sciences Dr. Chetan E. Chitnis, Principal Leader, Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi
Physical Sciences Prof. Sandip Trivedi, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
Social Sciences – Social Anthropology Nandini Sundar, Dept. of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics (DSE)
Social Sciences – Sociology Amita Baviskar, Sociology Unit, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi
2009
Social Sciences – Economics Prof. Abhijit Banerjee received the 2009 Infosys Prize in Social Sciences – Economics, in recognition of his contributions to the economic theory of development, and for his pioneering work in the empirical evaluation of public policy. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Social Sciences – History Prof. Upinder Singh received the 2009 Infosys Prize in Social Sciences – History, in recognition of her contributions as a historian of ancient and early medieval Indian history. She is with the Dept. of History at the University of Delhi, India.
Physical Sciences Prof. T. Padmanabhan received the 2009 Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences, in recognition of his contribution to a deeper understanding of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity in the context of thermodynamics, and for his work on the large scale structure in cosmology. Thanu Padmanabhan is a Distinguished Professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune.
Mathematical Sciences Prof. Ashoke Sen received the 2009 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to Mathematical physics, in particular, to String theory. He is currently a faculty at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India.
Life Sciences K. VijayRaghavan received the 2009 Infosys Prize in Life Sciences, in recognition of his many contributions as a developmental geneticist and neurobiologist. K Vijay Raghavan is Senior Professor in Developmental Genetics and Director of National Centre of Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
The Infosys Prize for Mathematics 2008
The Infosys Prize for Mathematics 2008, awarded jointly by Infosys and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), will be integrated with the Infosys Prize in the mathematical sciences category with effect from 2009. The first recipient of the prize was Manindra Agrawal of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.