Raman Parimala

Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of mathematics at Emory University. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. She has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.
Background.
Parimala was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at Chennai. She received her M.Sc. from Madras University (1970) and Ph.D. from the
University of Mumbai (1976); her advisor was R. Sridharan from TIFR.
Honors.
On National Science Day in 2020, Smriti Irani, Minister, Women and Child Development, Government of India announced establishment of chair in name of Raman Parimala along with ten great Indian Women Scientists at Institutes across India.
Parimala was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994 and gave a talk "Study of quadratic forms — some connections with geometry". She gave a plenary address "Arithmetic of linear algebraic groups over two dimensional fields" at the Congress in Hyderabad in 2010.