Six brilliant researchers were announced as the winners of the Infosys Prize 2026 in Bengaluru, recognizing their big contributions across fields like economics, engineering, law, life sciences, math, and physics.
Each winner takes home a gold medal, a citation, and $100,000, a pretty awesome way to honor work that's making a real difference.
Six winners named across diverse fields
This year's winners are Karthik Sastry (Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University), Swarun Kumar (wireless networks), Gautam Bhatia (legal scholar), Isha Jain (mitochondrial disease research), Riddhipratim Basu (probability theory breakthroughs), and Manoj Kumar Joshi (quantum systems).
Their work is shaping everything from how we fight climate change to how our tech and health systems evolve: proof that science really does touch every part of life.