Tag: 2017
Lawrence Liang Professor, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University,...
The Infosys Prize 2017 for Social Sciences is awarded to Prof. Lawrence Liang in recognition of his creative scholarship on law and society. His prodigious output in the fields of copyright law, digital technologies and media, and popular culture consistently raises probing questions about the nature of freedom, rights, and social development. His provocative answers link historical context and ethical practice in unexpected and illuminating ways.
Prof. Yamuna Krishnan (Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago)
The Infosys Prize 2017 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Prof. Yamuna Krishnan for her ground-breaking work in the emerging field of architecture of the building blocks of life—the DNA. By successfully manipulating DNA to create biocompatible nanomachines she has created novel ways of interrogating living systems, increasing our knowledge of cell function and getting one step closer to answering unresolved biomedical questions.
Ritabrata Munshi (Professor, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,...
The Infosys Prize 2017 in Mathematics is awarded to Prof. Ritabrata Munshi 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.
Upinder S. Bhalla (Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru)
The Infosys Prize 2017 in Life Sciences is awarded to Prof. Upinder Singh Bhalla 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.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Professor of English Literature, Department of English,...
The Infosys Prize 2017 for Humanities is awarded to the distinguished literary scholar Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir 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.
SANGHAMITRA BANDYOPADHYAY Director, ( Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata,...
The Infosys Prize 2017 in Engineering and Computer Science is awarded to Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay 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.
