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The Infosys Prize is an annual award granted to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards for research in India. The prize for each category includes a gold medallion, a citation certificate, and prize money of US$100,000 (or equivalent in Indian Rupees). The prize purse is tax free for winners living in India. The winners are selected by the jury of their respective categories, headed by the jury chairs.

In 2008, the prize was jointly awarded by the Infosys Science Foundation and National Institute of Advanced Studies for mathematics. The following year, three additional categories were added: Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. In 2010, Engineering and Computer Science was added as a category. In 2012, a sixth category, Humanities, was added.

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Laureates in Engineering and Computer Science

The Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded annually since 2010.

YearLaureate(s)Institution(s)Citation
2010Ashutosh SharmaIndian Institute of Technology KanpurAwarded "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the fields of surfaces and interfaces, adhesion, pattern formation, nanocomposites, materials science, and hydrodynamics, which have practical applications in such areas as energy storage, filtration, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and optoelectronics."
2011Kalyanmoy DebIndian Institute of Technology KanpurAwarded "for his work in the fields of evolutionary multi-objective optimization and genetic algorithms."5
2012Ashish Kishore LeleNational Chemical LaboratoryAwarded "for his incisive contributions in molecular tailoring of stimuli responsive smart polymeric gels; exploring the anomalous behavior of rheologically complex fluids, and for building the bridge between macromolecular dynamics and polymer processing."
2013V. Ramgopal RaoIndian Institute of Technology BombayAwarded "for his wide-ranging contributions to nanoscale electronics, for integrating chemistry with mechanics and electronics to invent new functional devices, and for innovation and entrepreneurship in creating technologies and products of societal value."
2014Jayant HaritsaIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded "for being a pioneer in the design and optimization of database engines that form the core of modern enterprise information systems. His many contributions have found direct use in various types of databases including decision‑support, biological and multilingual databases, as well as produced software tools for query optimization and metadata processing."
2015Umesh WaghmareJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchAwarded "for his innovative use of first- principles theories and modeling in insightful investigations of microscopic mechanisms responsible for specific properties of specific materials such as topological insulators, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and 2-dimensional materials like graphene."
2016Viswanathan KumaranIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded "for his seminal work in complex fluids and complex flows and especially in transition and turbulence in soft-walled tubes and channels."
2017Sanghamitra BandyopadhyayIndian Statistical InstituteAwarded "for her scholarly record in algorithmic optimization and for its significant impact on biological data analysis. Her discoveries include a genetic marker for breast cancer, determination of co-occurrence of HIV and cancers and the role of white matter in Alzheimer's disease."6
2018Navakanta BhatIndian Institute of Science, BangaloreAwarded "for his work on the design of novel biosensors based on his research in biochemistry and gaseous sensors that push the performance limits of existing metal-oxide sensors. The prize recognizes his efforts to build a state-of-the-art infrastructure for research and talent training in nanoscale systems and for developing technologies for space and national security applications."7
2019Sunita SarawagiIndian Institute of Technology, BombayAwarded "for her research in databases, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, and for important applications of these research techniques."8
2020Hari BalakrishnanMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAwarded "for his broad contributions to computer networking, his seminal work on mobile and wireless systems."9
2021Chandrasekhar NairMolbio DiagnosticsAwarded for "his development and large-scale commercialization of Truenat, a new point-of-care testing platform for PCR-based medical diagnostics. Dr. Nair’s work has enabled testing for millions of COVID-19 cases across resource-limited settings in India and the diagnosis of multiple infectious diseases including tuberculosis all over the world."10
2022Suman ChakrabortyIndian Institute of Technology KharagpurAwarded for "his pioneering work in elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electromechanics at the micro- and nanoscale. Using this understanding he has helped to advance healthcare in resource-limited settings through the invention of novel low-cost medical devices for sensing, diagnostics and therapeutics."11
2023Sachchida Nand TripathiIndian Institute of Technology KanpurAwarded "for the deployment of large-scale sensor-based air quality network and mobile laboratory for hyper local measurements of pollution, data generation and analysis using AI+ML for effective air quality management and citizen awareness, and for the discovery of new pathways of aerosols formation and growth that provide mechanistic understanding of haze formation."12
2024Shyam GollakotaUniversity of WashingtonAwarded "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."13

Laureates in Humanities

The Infosys Prize in Humanities has been awarded annually since 2012.

YearLaureate(s)Institution(s)Citation
2012Sanjay SubrahmanyamUniversity of California, Los AngelesAwarded "for his path-breaking contribution to history. He is an outstanding scholar of early-modern (1500-1800) South Asian history. He has been able to develop a new genre of 'connected history,’ involving persons, products, and social and political processes stretching from Melaka in the East to Portugal in the West."14
Amit ChaudhuriUniversity of East AngliaAwarded "for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail. The Infosys Prize recognizes and celebrates the intellectual reach and the quiet humanity in his extraordinary writings."15
2013Nayanjot LahiriUniversity of DelhiAwarded "for her outstanding contribution towards the integration of archaeological knowledge with the historical understanding of India from the earliest times. She is an exceptional scholar of proto-historic and early India. Her wide-ranging work on the past and present illuminates many aspects that include contemporary Indian society."16
Ayesha KidwaiJawaharlal Nehru UniversityAwarded "for her exceptional contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics. Her research on syntactic relations in Hindi-Urdu has related wider debates in linguistics to the study of Indian languages and has extended our understanding of India's linguistic diversity."17
2014Shamnad BasheerIncreasing Diversity by Increasing Access and SpicyIPAwarded "for his outstanding contributions to a broad range of legal issues and legal education. He has been doing this with remarkable fair‑mindedness in assessing opposing positions taken on quintessentially controversial areas, such as intellectual property laws."18
2015Jonardon GaneriNew York UniversityAwarded "for his outstanding scholarship and originality in interpreting and scrutinizing analytical Indian Philosophy. He has thrown light on the shared ground as well as the dichotomy between Indian and Greek traditions of philosophical reasoning, thereby illuminating both."
2016Sunil AmrithHarvard UniversityAwarded "for his outstanding contributions to the history of migration, environmental history, and the history of international public health, and in recognition of his field-changing research on the interrelated past of contemporary Asia."19
2017Ananya Jahanara KabirKing's College LondonAwarded "for her highly original explorations of the long-standing historical elements - conceptual, social and cultural - in colonial modernity, and for her subtle and insightful ethnography of cultural and political life in Kashmir."20
2018Kavita SinghJawaharlal Nehru UniversityAwarded "for her extraordinarily illuminating study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art, as well as her insightful writing on the historical function and role of museums and their significance in the increasingly fraught and conflicted social world in which visual culture exists today."21
2019Manu DevadevanIndian Institute of Technology, MandiAwarded "for his highly original and wide-ranging work on pre-modern South India."22
2020Prachi DeshpandeCenter for Studies in Social SciencesAwarded "for her extraordinarily nuanced and highly sophisticated treatment of South Asian historiography."23
2021Ângela Barreto XavierUniversity of Lisbon, PortugalAwarded for "her deeply researched and sophisticated analysis of conversion and violence in the Portuguese empire in India, especially Goa.Her extensive body of writings in both English and Portuguese have shown Xavier to be an important and original voice on colonial and imperial history."24
2022Sudhir KrishnaswamyNational Law School of India UniversityAwarded for "his insightful understanding of the Indian Constitution, especially his carefully argued account of the importance of the landmark ‘basic structure doctrine’ adopted by the Supreme Court in 1973 that guides and constrains various efforts to amend it, while also ensuring its stability in the face of executive and legislative outcomes in India’s political life.25
2023Jahnavi PhalkeyScience Gallery BengaluruAwarded for "her brilliant and granular insights into the individual, institutional, and material histories of scientific research in modern India.26
2024Mahmood KooriaUniversity of Edinburgh, UKAwarded for "his truly outstanding and seminal contributions to the study of maritime Islam in a global perspective...".27

Laureates in Life Sciences

The Infosys Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded annually since 2009.

YearLaureate(s)Institution(s)Citation
2009K. VijayRaghavanNational Centre for Biological SciencesAwarded "for his many contributions as a developmental geneticist and neurobiologist."28
2010Chetan E. ChitnisInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and BiotechnologyAwarded "for his pioneering work in understanding the interactions of the malarial parasite and its host, leading to the development of a viable malaria vaccine."29
2011Imran SiddiqiCentre for Cellular and Molecular BiologyAwarded "for his breakthrough contributions to the basic understanding of clonal seed formation in plants which can be applied to revolutionize agriculture, especially in the developing world."30
2012Satyajit MayorNational Centre for Biological SciencesAwarded "for new insights into regulated cell surface organization and membrane dynamics, necessary for understanding self-organization and trafficking of membrane molecules in living cells, and in signaling between cells."31
2013Rajesh Sudhir GokhaleInstitute of Genomics and Integrative BiologyAwarded "for his work in the field of lipid metabolism in M. tuberculosis. He discovered fatty acyl AMP ligases in tubercle bacillus, their role in the generation of the lipid components of its cell wall and of their existence in other organisms, where they play a role in biosynthesis of complex molecules."32
2014Shubha ToleTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for her significant contributions to our understanding of how the brain's structure and circuitry are formed in the embryo. Her research uncovers common genetic mechanisms that control the development of the hippocampus, cortex and amygdala."33
2015Amit Prakash SharmaInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and BiotechnologyAwarded "for his pioneering contributions towards deciphering the molecular structure, at the atomic level, of key proteins involved in the biology of pathogenesis of the malarial parasite."
2016Gagandeep KangTranslational Health Science and Technology InstituteAwarded "for her pioneering contributions to understanding the natural history of rotavirus and other infectious diseases that are important both globally and in India. Her findings have enormous implications for vaccines and other public health measures to thwart these infections."34
2017Upinder Singh BhallaNational Centre for Biological SciencesAwarded "for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the brain's computational machinery. His investigations have revealed essential neuronal computations that underlie the ability to acquire, integrate and store complex sensory information, and to utilize that information for decision and action."35
2018Roop MallikTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for his pioneering work on molecular motor proteins, which are crucial for the functioning of living cells. Mallik has identified and measured forces needed to transport large particles inside cells, and demonstrated their role in fundamental processes such as targeting pathogens for their destruction and moving lipid droplets for fatty acid regulation in the liver."36
2019Manjula ReddyCenter for Cellular and Molecular BiologyAwarded "for her groundbreaking discoveries concerning the structure of cell walls in bacteria."37
2020Rajan SankaranarayananCenter for Cellular and Molecular BiologyAwarded "for fundamental contributions towards understanding one of the most basic mechanisms in biology, the error-free translation of the genetic code to make protein molecules."38
2021Mahesh SankaranNational Center for Biological Sciences, IndiaAwarded in "recognition of his pioneering work on the ecology of tropical savannah ecosystems, his contributions to highlighting the biodiversity of important Indian ecosystems such as the Western Ghats, and his input to international reports on climate change and biodiversity that have provided scientific evidence to policy makers."39
2022Vidita VaidyaTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaAwarded "for her fundamental contributions to understanding brain mechanisms that underlie mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, including signals engaged by the neurotransmitter serotonin in causing persistent changes in behavior induced by early life stress and the role of serotonin in energy regulation in brain cells."40
2023Arun Kumar ShuklaIndian Institute of Technology, KanpurIIT Kanpur,Awarded "for his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), a key component of cell function. His studies have elegantly illustrated mechanisms that selectively activate signaling pathways downstream of GPCRs. These and other discoveries provide fundamental understanding of the context-dependent functions of GPCRs and suggest a new framework for the design of novel therapeutics."41
2024Siddhesh KamatIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, PuneAwarded "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."42

Laureates in Mathematical Sciences

The Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences has been awarded annually since 2008.

YearLaureate(s)Institution(s)Citation
2008Manindra AgrawalIndian Institute of Technology KanpurAwarded "for his outstanding contribution in the field of complexity theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science concerned with the study of algorithms for solving mathematical and related scientific problems, and especially their efficiency and running times."43
2009Ashoke SenHarish-Chandra Research InstituteAwarded "for his fundamental contributions to Mathematical Physics, in particular, to String Theory."44
2010Chandrashekhar KhareUniversity of California, Los AngelesAwarded "for his fundamental contributions to Number Theory, particularly his solution of the Serre conjecture."45
2011Kannan SoundararajanStanford UniversityAwarded "for his path breaking work in analytic number theory and development of new techniques to study critical values of general zeta functions to prove the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture for classical holomorphic forms."46
2012Manjul BhargavaPrinceton UniversityAwarded "for his extraordinarily original work in algebraic number theory. His work has revolutionized the way in which various fundamental arithmetic objects, such as number fields and elliptic curves, are understood."47
2013Rahul PandharipandeETH ZurichAwarded "for his profound work in algebraic geometry. In particular, for his work on Gromov-Witten theory for Riemann surfaces, for predicting the connection between Gromov-Witten and Donaldson‑Thomas theories, and for his recent work with Aaron Pixton that establishes this connection for Calabi-Yau 3-folds."48
2014Madhu SudanMassachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft ResearchAwarded "for his seminal contributions to theoretical computer science, especially in the areas of Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCP) and error‑correcting codes."49
2015Mahan MjTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for his outstanding contributions to geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology and complex geometry. In particular, for establishing a central conjecture in the Thurston program to study hyperbolic 3-manifolds and introducing important new tools to study fundamental groups of complex manifolds."50
2016Akshay VenkateshStanford UniversityAwarded "for his exceptionally wide-ranging, foundational and creative contributions to modern number theory. His unique ability to use wide-ranging techniques drawn from analytic number theory, ergodic theory, homotopy theory to address concrete problems in number theory and discover new phenomena attest to the essential unity of mathematics."51
2017Ritabrata MunshiTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for his outstanding contributions to analytic aspects of number theory. Besides ingenious contributions to the Diophantine problem, he has established important estimates known as sub-convexity bounds for a large class of L-functions with methods that are powerful and original."52
2018Nalini AnantharamanUniversity of StrasbourgAwarded "for the effective use of entropy in the study of semiclassical limits of eigenstates in quantum analogs of chaotic dynamical systems and for her work on the delocalization of eigenfunctions on large regular graphs."53
2019Siddhartha MishraETH ZürichAwarded "for his outstanding contributions to Applied Mathematics, in particular for designing computational methods that solve non-linear partial differential equations arising in different areas, analyzing their effectiveness and designing algorithms to implement them."54
2020Sourav ChatterjeeStanford UniversityAwarded "for his groundbreaking work in probability and statistical physics."55
2021Neeraj KayalMicrosoft ResearchAwarded for "his outstanding contributions to Computational Complexity."56
2022Mahesh KakdeIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded for "his outstanding contributions to algebraic number theory."57
2023Bhargav BhattUniversity of MichiganAwarded for "his outstanding contributions to arithmetic geometry and commutative algebra.".58
2024Neena GuptaIndian Statistical InstituteAwarded "for big impact of her work on the closely related fields of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry."59

Laureates in Physical Sciences

The Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences has been awarded annually since 2009.

YearLaureate(s)Institution(s)Citation
2009Thanu PadmanabhanInter-University Centre for Astronomy and AstrophysicsAwarded "for his contribution to a deeper understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity in the context of thermodynamics, and for his work on the large scale structure in cosmology."60
2010Sandip TrivediTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for finding an ingenious way to solve two of the most outstanding puzzles of Superstring Theory simultaneously: What is the origin of dark energy of the Universe? Why is there no massless scalar particle?"
2011Sriram RamaswamyIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded "for his research on various aspects of the collective behaviour of living systems ranging from bacteria to schools of fish in the ocean."61
2012Ayyappanpillai AjayagoshNational Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and TechnologyAwarded "for his pioneering development of methods for the construction of supramolecular functional materials, which can be employed as components in organic electronic devices and in powerful substance selective optical sensing and imaging."
2013Shiraz MinwallaInstitute for Advanced Study and Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for his pioneering contributions to the study of string theory, quantum field theory and gravity, and for uncovering a deep connection between the equations of fluid and superfluid dynamics and Einstein's equations of general relativity."
2014Srivari ChandrasekharIndian Institute of Chemical TechnologyAwarded "for his diverse and notable contributions in synthetic organic chemistry with special focus on the synthesis of complex molecules from natural sources. He has devised innovative, practical approaches to pharmaceuticals of current interest to industry."
2015G. Ravindra KumarTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchAwarded "for his pioneering experimental contributions to the physics of high intensity laser matter interactions. In particular for providing, for the first time, unequivocal evidence of turbulent magnetic fields and the discovery of terahertz frequency acoustic waves, in laser produced hot dense plasmas. These results have significance to testing stellar and astrophysical scenarios."
2016Anil BhardwajPhysical Research LaboratoryAwarded "for his experiments on Chandrayaan-1 and Mars Orbiter missions that revealed new features of solar wind interactions with lunar surface and provided important clues for understanding thermal escape of the Martian atmosphere. He also made very significant contributions in detection and delineation of the nature and origin of planetary X-rays."
2017Yamuna KrishnanUniversity of ChicagoAwarded "for her ground-breaking work in the emerging field of architecture of the building blocks of life—the DNA. By successfully manipulating DNA to create biocompatible nanomachines she has created novel ways of interrogating living systems, increasing our knowledge of cell function and getting one step closer to answering unresolved biomedical questions."62
2018S. K. SatheeshIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded "for his pioneering scientific work in the field of climate change. His studies on black carbon aerosols, the dark, light absorbing, microscopic particles in air which greatly influence the energy balance of the atmosphere over the Indian subcontinent, have enabled a better understanding of the role of these particles on climate change, precipitation, and, human health in the Indian subcontinent."63
2019Govindasamy MugeshIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded "for his seminal work in the chemical synthesis of small molecules and nanomaterials for biomedical applications."64
2020Arindam GhoshIndian Institute of ScienceAwarded "for his development of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors to build a new generation of functional electronic, thermoelectric and optoelectronic devices."65
2021Bedangadas MohantyNational Institute of Science Education and ResearchAwarded for "investigations of the nuclear force."66
2022Nissim KanekarNational Centre for Radio AstrophysicsAwarded "for his study of galaxies in an era, the so-called “high noon” period, in which stars were being formed at a maximum rate."67
2023Mukund ThattaiNational Centre for Biological SciencesAwarded "for his groundbreaking contributions to evolutionary cell biology."68
2024Vedika KhemaniStanford UniversityAwarded "for her wide ranging and groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and experimental non-equilibrium quantum matter, most notably the discovery of time-crystals."69

Laureates in Social Sciences

The Infosys Prize in Social Sciences has been awarded annually since 2009.

YearLaureate(s)Institution(s)Citation
2009Abhijit BanerjeeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAwarded "for his contributions to the economic theory of development, and for his pioneering work in the empirical evaluation of public policy."70
Upinder SinghUniversity of DelhiAwarded "for her contributions as a historian of ancient and early medieval Indian history."71
2010Nandini SundarDelhi School of EconomicsAwarded "in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding analyst of social identities, including tribe and caste, and the politics of knowledge in modern India."
Amita BaviskarInstitute of Economic GrowthAwarded "in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding analyst of social and environmental movements in modern India."
2011Raghuram Govind RajanUniversity of ChicagoAwarded "for his analysis of the complex interaction between financial institutions, governments and people."72
Pratap Bhanu MehtaCenter for Policy ResearchAwarded "for broadening public discussion of important social, political and economic matters, bringing in heterodox perspectives and for constantly challenging reigning orthodoxies."73
2012Arunava SenIndian Statistical InstituteAwarded "for his game-theoretic analyses of mechanism design for implementing social choice rules, when individuals have diverse information and incentives."
2013Aninhalli R. VasaviNehru Memorial Museum & LibraryAwarded "for her distinctive and pioneering research that spans a remarkable range covering four main areas: Agrarian society at the intersection of economy, culture and environment; school education in varied regional contexts; globalization and its impact on the moral economy of urban occupations; and social science as seen from the vantage point of Indian languages and regional cultures."
2014Esther DufloMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAwarded "in recognition of her pioneering and prodigious contributions to development economics, with important implications for policies pertaining to the delivery of services to the poor."
2015Srinath RaghavanCenter for Policy ResearchAwarded "for outstanding research that synthesizes military history, international politics, and strategic analysis into powerful and imaginative perspectives on India in global context."
2016Kaivan MunshiUniversity of CambridgeAwarded "in recognition of his remarkably deep analysis of the multifaceted role of communities, such as ethnic groups and castes, in the process of economic development."
2017Lawrence LiangAmbedkar UniversityAwarded "for his creative scholarship on law and society. His prodigious output in the fields of copyright law, digital technologies and media, and popular culture consistently raises probing questions about the nature of freedom, rights, and social development. His provocative answers link historical context and ethical practice in unexpected and illuminating ways."74
2018Sendhil MullainathanThe University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessAwarded "for his path-breaking work in behavioral economics. Mullainathan's research has had substantial impact on diverse fields such as development, public finance, corporate governance and policy design. A significant part of this work is relevant to India. He is currently working on big data and machine learning issues and applications in economics."75
2019Anand PandianJohns Hopkins UniversityAwarded "for his brilliantly imaginative work on ethics, selfhood and the creative process."76
2020Raj ChettyHarvard UniversityAwarded "for his pioneering research on identifying barriers to economic opportunity and for developing solutions to help people escape from poverty towards better life outcomes."77
2021Pratiksha BaxiJawaharlal Nehru University, IndiaAwarded for her "pioneering work on sexual violence and jurisprudence."78
2022Rohini PandeYale UniversityAwarded for her "outstanding research on subjects of key importance, including governance and accountability, women’s empowerment, the role of credit in the lives of the poor, and the environment. Her empirical findings, based on diverse methodologies, offer major promise and potential for policy design in emerging economies, including India."79
2023Karuna MantenaColumbia UniversityAwarded for her "groundbreaking research on the theory of imperial rule, and the claim that this late imperial ideology became one of the important factors in the emergence of modern social theory. "80
2024Mahmood KooriaUniversity of EdinburghAwarded 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.81

Trustees

Controversies

Lawrence Liang, a professor of law awarded the Infosys Prize, was found guilty by an internal university inquiry committee of sexually harassing a doctoral student on multiple occasions.8283848586 Following the adverse finding, prominent activists, academics and gender rights groups issued a public statement on social media condemning Liang and criticising the award of the Infosys Prize to Liang.87

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References

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