Dr. Ushadevi Narendra Bhosle is an Indian mathematician, educator and researcher. She specialises in Algebraic Geometry. She worked on the moduli spaces of bundles.
She earned a B.Sc. degree in 1969 and an M.Sc. degree in 1971 from University of Pune, Shivaji University, respectively. She commenced her post-graduate studies in 1971 from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and got her PhD under the guidance of her mentor S. Ramanan in 1980.
She has spent most of her career at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where she was employed as a research associate from 1971 to 1974, a Research Associate II from 1974 to 1977, a Research Fellow from 1977 to 1982, a Fellow from 1982 to 1990, and a Reader from 1991 to 1995. She was made an Associate Professor in 1995, a Professor in 1998, and a Senior Professor in 2012.
She left the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2014 to become the Raja Ramanna fellow at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, a position she held until 2017. She has been INSA Senior Scientist at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore since January 2019.
She is the member of FASc, FNASc, FNASI and VBAC international committees. She also was the senior associate of International Centre of Theoretical Physics in Italy. She was a fellow member of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India.
She has 66 publications.
rank two on hyperelliptic curves. Invent. Math. 38, 161-185 (1976).
Moduli of orthogonal and spin bundles over hyperelliptic curves. Compositio Math. 51, 15-40 (1984).
She was awarded by Stree Shakti Science Samman in 2010 and Ramaswamy Aiyer Memorial Award in 2000.
Apart from mathematics, her other interests are drawing, painting, reading and music. Currently, she lives in Mumbai.