She is the third woman from India who got this award (after Teacher-Student duo Raman Parimala (1987), Sujatha Ramdorai(2004)).

Neena Gupta received the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist award in 2014.

Her work has also earned her the inaugural Saraswathi Cowsik Medal in 2013, awarded by the TIFR Alumni Association.

She earned her post graduation in mathematics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 2008[8] and subsequently, her Ph.D. degree in 2011 with commutative algebra as her specialization under the guidance of Amartya Kumar Dutta.

The title of her dissertation was "Some results on Laurent polynomial fibrations and Quasi A*-algebras".