Sudeshna Sinha is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. She was at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, for over a decade. She works in the field of nonlinear physics. Her work on 'chaos-based' hardware (so-called "Chaos computing") is being developed commercially by the US-based company Chaologix.^[1] Chaologix has now been acquired by ARM (Cambridge, England).^[2]

Sinha is married to Kapil Hari Paranjape, who is a professor of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. Her maternal grandfather was Dr. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi, formerly the vice-chancellor of Viswa Bharati University and historian.

Sinha holds a Master of Science (Five Years Integrated Programme in Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1985.^[3] She completed her Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, in 1990.^[4]

Sinha is currently a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali and works in the field of nonlinear physics.^[5] Her research areas include nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complex systems, networks, and computation.^[6] She is an editor of the AIP journal Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science^[7] and associate editor of Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Elsevier).^[8] She is also on the editorial boards of Pramana - Journal of Physics^[9] and Indian Journal of Physics.^[10]

• Elected Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, 2018.^[11]
• J. C. Bose National Fellowship (2016-2020; renewed 2021-2025).^[12]
• Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi in 2014.^[13]
• Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore in 2010.^[14]
• Awarded the B. M. Birla Prize for Physics in 1998 : The B M Birla prizes are awarded to Indian scientists below the age of 40 who have made outstanding original contributions in their fields.^[15]
• Associate Member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy during 1995-2000
• General Proficiency Prize from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1985): Awarded to the "Best Outgoing Student in the master's degree (five years integrated programme in Physics) for the year"
• National Talent Search Scholarship, during 1978-1985

• Chaologix