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Engineering and Computer Science Hari Balakrishnan 2020 Sunita Sarawagi 2019 Navakanta Bhat 2018 Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay 2017 V. Kumaran 2016 Prof. Umesh Waghmare 2015 Jayant Haritsa 2014 Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao 2013 Dr. Ashish Lele 2012 Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb 2011 Prof. Ashutosh Sharma 2010
Humanities Prachi Deshpande 2020 Manu Devadevan 2019 Kavita Singh 2018 Ananya Jahanara Kabir 2017 Sunil Amrith 2016 Jonardon Ganeri 2015 Shamnad Basheer 2014 Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri 2013 – Archaeology Prof. Ayesha Kidwai 2013 – Linguistics Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam 2012 – History Prof. Amit Chaudhuri 2012 – Literary Studies
Life Sciences Rajan Sankaranarayanan 2020 Manjula Reddy 2019 Roop Mallik 2018 Upinder S. Bhalla 2017 Gagandeep Kang 2016 Dr. Amit Sharma 2015 Shubha Tole 2014 Dr. Rajesh S. Gokhale 2013 Prof. Satyajit Mayor 2012 Dr. Imran Siddiqi 2011 Dr. Chetan E. Chitnis 2010 Prof. K VijayRaghavan 2009
Mathematical Sciences Sourav Chatterjee 2020 Siddhartha Mishra 2019 Nalini Anantharaman 2018 Ritabrata Munshi 2017 Akshay Venkatesh 2016 Prof. Mahan Mj 2015 Madhu Sudan 2014 Prof. Rahul Pandharipande 2013 Prof. Manjul Bhargava 2012 Prof. Kannan Soundararajan 2011 Prof. Chandrashekhar Khare 2010 Prof. Ashoke Sen 2009 Prof. Manindra Agrawal 2008
Physical Sciences Arindam Ghosh 2020 Govindasamy Mugesh 2019 S.K. Satheesh 2018 Yamuna Krishnan 2017 Anil Bhardwaj 2016 Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar 2015 Srivari Chandrasekhar 2014 Prof. Shiraz Naval Minwalla 2013 Dr. A. Ajayaghosh 2012 Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy 2011 Prof. Sandip Trivedi 2010 Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan 2009
Social Sciences Raj Chetty 2020 Anand Pandian 2019 Sendhil Mullainathan 2018 Lawrence Liang 2017 Kaivan Munshi 2016 Dr. Srinath Raghavan 2015 Esther Duflo 2014 Prof. Aninhalli R. Vasavi 2013 Prof. Arunava Sen 2012 Prof. Raghuram G. Rajan 2011 - Economics Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta 2011 - Political Science and International Relations Prof. Amita Baviskar 2010 - Sociology Prof. Nandini Sundar 2010 – Social Anthropology Prof. Abhijit Banerjee 2009 - Economics Prof. Upinder Singh 2009 - History