ICTS is delighted to share the news that Riddhipratim Basu has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2026 in Mathematical Sciences for his outstanding contributions to probability theory and statistical physics.
The Prize citation reads: "The Infosys Prize 2026 for Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Prof. Riddhipratim Basu for outstanding contributions to probability theory and statistical physics, His work resolved the slow-bond problem and established large deviations asymptotics. He has settled conjectures on fluctuations for percolation models, including those that are not exactly solvable. He also developed explicit combinatorial descriptions of Wilson loop expectations in two-dimensional lattice Yang-Mills theory in an asymptotic strong-coupling regime.”
The prestigious Infosys Prize, awarded annually by the Infosys Science Foundation, recognises outstanding contributions by researchers across six disciplines.
ICTS congratulates Prof. Basu on this outstanding achievement. We are delighted to see his work receive this recognition and wish him continued success in his research.
ICTS Centre Director Rajesh Gopakumar said, “I am very proud of Riddhi’s accomplishments. He helped start the probability group at ICTS when he joined in 2017. The group has now grown with its other members to have global visibility. Probability is an increasingly central area that not only has been giving new insights into various areas in mathematics but also serving as a connect to physics, biology and computer science. I am sure we will see many more breakthrough results from Riddhi in the coming years which ICTS will be able to take pride in.”