# Six Academics Win Infosys Prize 2026

> Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia and five others receive Infosys Prize 2026 for groundbreaking research.
- Title: Six Academics Win Infosys Prize 2026 · Scroll | Shortify
- Summary: Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia and five others receive Infosys Prize 2026 for groundbreaking research.
- Keywords: infosys prize, gautam bhatia, jindal global law school, university of new south wales, swarun kumar, carnegie mellon university, isha jain, gladstone institutes, university of california, riddhipratim basu, tata institute of fundamental research, karthik sastry
- Source: Scroll — https://scroll.in/latest/1097046/legal-scholar-gautam-bhatia-five-other-academics-win-infosys-prize-2026
- Author: Scroll Staff
- Published: 2026-11-12T15:23:00+00:00
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- Topics: infosys prize, gautam bhatia, jindal global law school, university of new south wales, swarun kumar, carnegie mellon university, isha jain, gladstone institutes, university of california, riddhipratim basu, tata institute of fundamental research, karthik sastry
## Gautam Bhatia Wins Prize
Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia, an adjunct professor at Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, Haryana, and Green Fellow at University of New South Wales, wins Infosys Prize 2026 for constitutional law research.

> Bhatia has made significant contributions to the study of Indian constitutional law
## Swarun Kumar Wins Prize
Swarun Kumar, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wins Infosys Prize 2026 for extending low-power wireless networks beyond information delivery to perception and action in the physical world.

> extends low-power wireless networks beyond information delivery to perception and action in the physical world
## Isha Jain Wins Prize
Isha Jain, an associate investigator at Gladstone Institutes and assistant professor at University of California, San Francisco, wins Infosys Prize 2026 for oxygen biology research in mitochondrial diseases.

> oxygen biology, which showed that tissue damage in some mitochondrial diseases arises from excess oxygen rather than energy failure
## Key takeaway

Six academics, including Gautam Bhatia, win Infosys Prize 2026 for contributions to constitutional law, quantum computing, and medical science.