Neena Gupta (born in 1984) is a professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta ...

(ISI),

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

. Her primary fields of interest are

commutative algebra Commutative algebra, first known as ideal theory, is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings. Both algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory build on commutative algebra. Prom ...

and affine algebraic geometry.

Life

Neena Gupta was previously a visiting scientist at the ISI and a visiting fellow at the

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the ...

(TIFR). She has won the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

(2019) in the category of mathematical sciences, the highest honour in India in the field of science and technology. In 2022 she was awarded the Ramanujan award. She is the second woman from India who got this award. Neena Gupta received the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Acade ...

Young Scientist award in 2014 for the solution she proposed to the Zariski Cancellation Problem. in positive characteristic. Her work on the conjecture had also earned her the inaugural Saraswathi Cowsik Medal in 2013, awarded by the TIFR Alumni Association. She is also the recipient of the DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries in 2021.

Education

Gupta graduated with honours in mathematics from Bethune College in 2006. She earned her post graduation in mathematics from the

in 2008 and subsequently, her

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

degree in 2011 with

as her specialization under the guidance of Amartya Kumar Dutta. The title of her dissertation was "Some results on Laurent polynomial fibrations and Quasi A*-algebras".

Career

* Professor at Statistical and Mathematics Unit (SMU), ISI Kolkata (Jun 2014 -) * INSPIRE Faculty at ISI Kolkata (Dec 2012 - Jun 2014) * Visiting Fellow at TIFR Mumbai (May 2012 - Dec 2012) * Visiting Scientist at ISI Kolkata (Feb 2012 - Apr 2012) *

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Syama Prasad Mukherjee (6 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as India's first Minister for Industry and Supply (currently known as Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), Ministry of C ...

Research Fellow at ISI Kolkata (Sep 2008 - Feb 2012)

Awards and honours

*Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2022 * DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries (2021) *

(2019) *

The World Academy of Sciences The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable deve ...

Young Affiliates (2020) *Fellow of the

Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...

(2021) * The Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award,

Department of Science and Technology (India) The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India. It was established in May 1971 to promote new areas of science and technology and to play the role of a nodal department fo ...

(2015) * The inaugural Professor A. K. Agarwal Award for best research publication by the

Indian Mathematical Society Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) is the oldest organization in India devoted to the promotion of study and research in mathematics. The Society was founded in April 1907 by V. Ramaswami Aiyar with its headquarters at Pune. The Society started ...

(2014) * The

Young Scientist Award (2014) * The Ramanujan Prize from the

University of Madras The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in India, incorporated by an a ...

(2014) * Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2013) * The Saraswathi Cowsik Medal by the TIFR Alumni Association for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem in positive characteristic (2013) *

Nari Shakti Puraskar The Nari Shakti Puraskar is an annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment. It is the highest civilian hon ...

on 8 March 2022

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gupta, Neena Living people 21st-century Indian women scientists Indian women mathematicians Bethune College alumni Indian Statistical Institute faculty 21st-century Indian mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians 1984 births Women scientists from West Bengal