Sukla (born March 7, 1944) is a former Professor of Mathematics, who served for more than three decades at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha, India.
She was born in Baripada.
Her father, Pandit Kashinath Kar Mohapatra, was the royal priest of the erstwhile king of the princely state of Mayurbhanj.She did her schooling from Maharani Prem Kumari Girls’ School and B.Sc.
with Mathematics Honours from M.P.C.
College, Baripada.
She completed her M.Sc.
in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack in 1966, and had a brief stint as a lecturer in M.P.C.
College, before moving to the University of Jabalpur with a CSIR Fellowship to pursue Ph.D under the supervision of Tribikram Pati.
While pursuing her researches, she joined Sambalpur University in November 1970 as a lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences, and continued there till her retirement in March 2004.She is the author of the textbook Number Theory and Its Applications to Cryptography (Cuttack: Kalyani Publishers, 2000).
In her research, she worked with English mathematician Brian Kuttner on Fourier Series.
She is a Life Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS).