NewzVille Desk
Professor Urbasi Sinha, faculty of Raman Research Institute (RRI), was honored with the Gates-Cambridge Impact Prize 2025 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at Cambridge, UK.
Professor Urbasi Sinha teaches Light and Matter Physics in RRI, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
After getting the award Prof. Sinha said “I have seen how the scholarship has evolved over the 25 years and am thrilled to celebrate its anniversary and to be recognised for my work over a similar time span. It is very humbling, but also makes me believe in the impact I can have in the next 25 years.”
The nomination for her Gates-Cambridge Impact Prize said: “Professor Sinha’s vision and dedication are paving the way for a future where quantum computing serves as a catalyst for solving humanity’s most pressing issues, embodying the true spirit of science in service of global progress.”
Prof. Sinha is a researcher in both quantum fundamentals and technologies, and she heads the Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) lab at RRI an autonomous institute of Department of Science and Technology. Her lab was one of the first in India to manufacture and establish the usage of heralded and entangled photon sources towards various applications in the following areas: quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum optics and quantum fundamentals and information processing. Professor Sinha has leadership roles in the recently announced ‘National Quantum Mission’. This initiative encourages research and development in quantum technologies with an aim of making India globally competitive in quantum innovation.
She was awarded the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar by the Government of India. She is also a recipient of the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Photonic Quantum Science and Technologies, University of Calgary, Canada. She has played a leading role in the creation of the Open Quantum Institute (OQI), first of its kind multi-stakeholder institution, launched at CERN in March 2024.
Prof. Sinha is an affiliate member, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada, and the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computing at the University of Toronto.
