Infosys announces winners of Infosys Prize 2012

Bangalore: Infosys today announced winners of Infosys Prize 2012 for outstanding research across six catogories - Engineering and Computer Science,Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Scie

ces and  Social Sciences. 

Dr Ashish Lele of National chemical Laboratories, Pune won in the Engineering and Computer Science category, Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California) in history, Prof Amit Chaudhuri (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) in contemporary literature, while in Life Sciences: Cellular Orgainisation and Signalling, Prof.Dr Satyajit Mayor (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore) bagged the award. Prof Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University won in the Mathematical Sciences, while senior Scientist Ayyappanpillai Ajayagosh (National Institute for Interdiscplinary Science and Technology won it in Physical Sciences, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,Thiruvananthapuram).In Social Sciences Prof Arunava Sen (Indian Statiscal Institute,Delhi,bagged it.

Dr. Ashish Lele

Engineering and Computer Science 2012

Dr. A. Ajayaghosh

Physical Sciences 2012

Prof. Manjul Bhargava 

Mathematical Sciences 2012

Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam 

Humanities – History 2012

Prof. Amit Chaudhuri 

Humanities – Literary Studies 2012

Prof. Satyajit Mayor

 Life Sciences 2012

Prof. Arunava Sen 
Social Sciences – Economics 2012