While a total of 3,898 Indian researchers have been selected this year, the number of Indian researchers featured in the list declined considerably from 6,239 in the 2025 edition ....
The award comes with a cash prize of $10,000.Kakde, who is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at IISc in Bengaluru, was recognised for his work on noncommutative Iwasawa theory, as well as the Gross-Stark and Brumer-Stark conjectures.