Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia, five other academics win Infosys Prize 2026
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Legal scholar and author Gautam Bhatia was among the six academics who were awarded the Infosys Prize 2026 announced on Thursday.
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Bhatia is an adjunct professor at Jindal Global Law School in Haryana’s Sonipat and a Green Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has authored five books.
“Bhatia has made significant contributions to the study of Indian constitutional law,” the Infosys Prize stated. “His work draws on legal thought, political theory and moral philosophy, with a focus on equality, fairness and building a more humane society.”
The Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science was awarded to Swarun Kumar, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. He was recognised for his work that “extends low-power wireless networks beyond information delivery to perception and action in the physical world”, said the Infosys Science Foundation.
Isha Jain, an associate investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, received the prize in life sciences.
She was awarded for work in “oxygen biology, which showed that tissue damage in some mitochondrial diseases arises from excess oxygen rather than energy failure, and for turning fundamental biochemical insights into new therapeutic strategies, including designing a small-molecule to reduce oxygen...