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 C ...

(ISI),

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. 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. Promi ...

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 De ...

(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 New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the NCT Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is t ...

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 Bethune College is a women's college located on Bidhan Sarani in Kolkata, India, and affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It is the oldest women's college in India. It was established as a girls' school in 1849, and as a college in 1879. ...

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 a ...

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 In mathematics, a Laurent polynomial (named after Pierre Alphonse Laurent) in one variable over a field \mathbb is a linear combination of positive and negative powers of the variable with coefficients in \mathbb. Laurent polynomials in ''X'' f ...

fibration The notion of a fibration generalizes the notion of a fiber bundle and plays an important role in algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics. Fibrations are used, for example, in postnikov-systems or obstruction theory. In this article, all map ...

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

Awards and honours

*Invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

(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 mee ...

(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 i ...

(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 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