Today Infosys Prize 2024 winners were announced at Infosys Science Foundation which started way back in 2009 and over the years grown in six categories.

The announcement was made in hybrid mode with the participation & presence of Infosys Founding members NR Narayanmurthy , Kris Gopal Krishnan , Mohandas Pai , S.D. Shibulal & Jury chairpersons , NIMHANS Director Smt Prathima Murthy ,Past winners like Jahnavi Phalkey Founder & Director of Bengaluru Science Gallery , Mukund Thattai Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioinformatics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru and eminent personalities with different walks of life.

Award winners recorded initial reactions was played .

Below are the winners as per their categories & citation.

Infosys Prize 2024 in Economics is awarded to Prof. Arun Chandrasekhar of Stanford University for his contribution to the study of social and economic networks, using innovative data sets and drawing on theoretical methods from machine learning and computer science. His collection and mapping of networks data, from multiple Karnataka villages, provides a testbed for studying important questions in development economics.

Engineering & Computer Science is awarded to Prof. Shyam Gollakota ,of University of Washington for his impactful research and technology translation spanning multiple engineering domains in societally relevant areas such as smart-phone based affordable healthcare tools for low- and middle-income countries, battery-free computing and communication, and augmentation of human auditory sensing with artificial intelligence.

Humanities and Social Sciences is awarded to Prof. Mahmood Kooria, Edinburgh University and Ashoka University
for his truly outstanding and seminal contributions to the study of maritime Islam in a global perspective, with particular focus on Kerala in the pre-modern and early modern eras. His pioneering studies have revealed the role of Islamic law in shaping economic, political, and cultural transformations on the Indian Ocean littorals.

Life Sciences is awarded to Prof. Siddhesh Kamat, of
The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
for his discoveries concerning bioactive lipids and their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways. His research using advanced methods to understand the function of lipids, a key component of cells, has important implications for understanding the role of these molecules in a range of cellular functions and human diseases.

Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Prof. Neena Gupta of
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem, a fundamental problem in algebraic geometry first posed in 1949 by Oscar Zariski, one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry. In 2014 she proved the striking result that Asanuma’s 3-dimensional affine variety yields a negative answer to Zariski’s original Cancellation Problem in positive characteristic.

Physical Sciences is awarded to Prof. Vedika Khemani, Stanford University ,Stanford Q-FARM at Stanford who has made wide-ranging and groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and experimental non-equilibrium quantum matter, most notably the discovery of time-crystals.

During Q n A ,for the question raised if possible in future to increase awards categories mainly in the field of Earth & Climate Sciences where research ,innovation & contributions are made towards the mitigation of Climate Change issues & Sustainability goals ,Mr Kris Gopal Krishna positively responded that Board will consider the suggestion which often already regularly discussed.

The Infosys Prize 2024 winners will be felicitated in a ceremony on January 11th 2025 in Bengaluru in person event.

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Ajay KR