Neena Gupta (mathematician)

Neena Gupta
Gupta in 2022
Born (1984-11-24) 24 November 1984
Alma materIndian Statistical Institute (PhD), (M.Math)
Bethune College (B.Sc.)
Known forProviding a counter-example over a field of positive characteristic to the special Zariski Cancellation Problem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, commutative algebra, affine algebraic geometry
InstitutionsISI, TIFR
Thesis Some Results on Laurent Polynomial Fibrations and Quasi A* Algebras  (2011)
Doctoral advisorProf. Amartya Dutta

Neena Gupta (born 24 November 1984) is an Indian mathematician and professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. She is known for solving Zariski Cancellation Problem, originally posed by Oscar Zariski in 1949. Her primary fields of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry.