Neena Gupta (mathematician)

This article is about the Indian mathematician. For the Indian actress, see Neena Gupta.

Neena Gupta
Gupta in 2022
Born	(1984-11-24) 24 November 1984 (age 40) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Education	Ph.D., M.Math., B.Sc. (Hons)
Alma mater	ISI, Bethune College
Known for	Providing a counter-example over a field of positive characteristic to the special Zariski Cancellation Problem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, commutative algebra, affine algebraic geometry
Institutions	ISI, TIFR
Thesis	Some Results on Laurent Polynomial Fibrations and Quasi A* Algebras  (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Prof. Amartya Dutta

Neena Gupta (born 24 November 1984^[1]) is a professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata.^[2] Her primary fields of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry.^[3]

Life

Neena Gupta was previously a visiting scientist at the ISI and a visiting fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). She has won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2019) in the category of mathematical sciences, the highest honor in India in the field of science and technology.^[4] In 2022 she was awarded the ICTP Ramanujan award. She is the third woman from India who got this award (after Teacher-Student duo Raman Parimala (1987), Sujatha Ramdorai(2004)).

Neena Gupta received the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist award in 2014.^[5] She solved the Zariski Cancellation Problem.^[6][7] in positive characteristic. Her work has also earned her the inaugural Saraswathi Cowsik Medal in 2013, awarded by the TIFR Alumni Association.^[8]

Education

Gupta graduated with honours in mathematics from Bethune College in 2006. She earned her post graduation in mathematics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 2008^[9] and subsequently, her Ph.D. degree in 2011 with commutative algebra 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".^[10]

Career

Gupta was a Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Research Fellow at ISI Kolkata from 2008 to 2012, and, after a visiting position at TIFR Mumbai, became INSPIRE Faculty at ISI Kolkata in 2012.^[11] She has been a professor in the Statistical and Mathematics Unit of ISI Kolkata since 2014.^[12]

Awards and honors

• Infosys Prize 2024 in Mathematical Sciences^[13]
• Selected by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) as the Emmy Noether Lecturer for the year 2025 (2024)
• TWAS-CAS young scientist award in Mathematics/ AI by The World Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2023)^[14]
• Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (2023)[1]
• 2nd Ganit Ratna Award (2023)^[15]
• Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2022^[16]
• Nari Shakti Puraskar (2021) by the President of India on 8 March 2022
• DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries (2021)^[17]
• Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist, 2020 and 2022^[18]
• Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2021)^[19]
• The World Academy of Sciences Young Affiliates (2020)^[20]
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2019)^[21]
• BM Birla Science Prize in Mathematics (2017)^[22]
• The Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award, Department of Science and Technology (India) (2015)^[23]
• The inaugural Professor A. K. Agarwal Award for best research publication by the Indian Mathematical Society (2014)^[24]
• The Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award (2014)^[5]
• The Ramanujan Prize from the University of Madras (2014)^[25]
• Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2013)^[26]
• The Saraswathi Cowsik Medal by the TIFR Alumni Association for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem in positive characteristic (2013)^[27]

References

1. Dutta, Amartya Kumar (January 2025). "Neena Gupta: Blazing a Trail". Bhāvanā. 9 (1).
2. "Scientific Workers". Indian Statistical Institute. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
3. D'Souza, Dilip (23 December 2021). "Neena Gupta: in love with mathematics". Mint.
4. Pandey, Jhimli Mukherjee (28 September 2019). "Kolkata mathematician wins Bhatnagar award, youngest recipient till date". The Times of India.
5. "Young Scientists Awards". INSA. 19 September 2015. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
6. Gupta, Neena (1 January 2014). "On the cancellation problem for the affine space ${\displaystyle \mathbb {A} ^{3}}$ in characteristic ${\displaystyle p}$". Inventiones Mathematicae. 195 (1): 279–288. doi:10.1007/s00222-013-0455-2. ISSN 1432-1297.
7. "On the Zariski Cancellation Problem". Bar-Ilan University. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
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10. Neena Gupta at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
11. "INSA 2012 INSPIRE Fellowships". INSA. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
12. "Archived copy". Retrieved 21 June 2022.
13. "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2024 - Neena Gupta". www.infosysprize.org. Archived from the original on 6 December 2024. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
14. Sciences (TWAS), The World Academy of (27 November 2023). "TWAS names winner 2023 TWAS-CAS Young Scientist Award". TWAS. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
15. "Indian Statistical Institute". www.isical.ac.in. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
16. "ICM". Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
17. Misra, Shubhangi (15 December 2021). "No one thought I could make it: Ramanujan Prize winner Neena Gupta who solved Zariski problem". ThePrint. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
18. "The Asian Scientist 100". Asian Scientist. Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
19. "Indian Academy of Sciences". Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
20. "ISI TWAS". Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
21. "Mathematician Dr Neena Gupta shines as the youngest Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee". Research Matters. 9 December 2019. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
22. "Indian Statistical Institute". www.isical.ac.in. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
23. "DST SJF Awards 2014-15" (PDF). DST. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
24. "IMS Newsletter" (PDF). IMS. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
25. "ISI Awards and Honours". ISI. Archived from the original on 22 January 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
26. "IASc Associates". IASc. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
27. "TIFR School of Math News". TIFR. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

External links

• Neena Gupta publications indexed by Google Scholar