New Delhi:
Neena Gupta is a mathematician, researcher, and professor at Statistics and Mathematics Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata who solved 70 years old Zariski Cancellation Problem, a basic problem in algebraic geometry, and has published over 20 research papers in national and international publications including ‘The Structure of a Laurent Polynomial Fibration in Variables,’ Journal of Algebraic Geometry (2012).
In 2022 she became third woman and fourth Indian to win the prestigious ‘Ramanujan Prize’ for Young Mathematicians for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra as well as youngest Indian to win the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
The Nari Shakti Puraskar is awarded to her for her excellence in the field of Mathematics.
