Neena Gupta, Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics, ISI
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The subject most children fear is the one that Neena Gupta loved. “My mother never counted practising math in my study time,” says the 38-year-old professor at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics unit in Kolkata’s Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). “She thought it was my hobby.”
But that the hobby would culminate into bagging awards for exemplary research in the subject is something no one in the family, including Gupta, had ever thought of.
(This story appears in the 16 December, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)