Sunita Sarawagi

Sunita Sarawagi is the Institute Chair Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. After obtaining her B.Tech. from IIT-Kharagpur and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Prof. Sunita Sarawagi joined IIT-Bombay. Prof. Sarawagi was one of the first researchers to develop information extraction techniques that went beyond the world of structured databases to unstructured data. Prof. Sarawagi was a Visiting Scientist at Google Inc. from 2014 to 2016, where she worked on deep learning models for personalizing and diversifying YouTube and Play recommendations, improving a conversation assistance engine, and extracting attributes of classes from the Knowledge Graph. Sarawagi is the Infosys Prize 2019 laureate in Engineering and Computer Science for her research in databases, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, and for important applications of these research techniques. Among Prof. Sarawagi’s many awards are Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Kharagpur (2019), IBM Faculty award (2003 and 2008), and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2013).