Sunita Sarawagi
Institute Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Sunita Sarawagi is the Institute Chair Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She obtained her B.Tech. from IIT-Kharagpur and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked at Google Research US (2014-2016), CMU (2004), and IBM Almaden Research Center (1996-1999). She 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. She is an ACM fellow and was awarded distinguished Alumnus from IIT Kharagpur in 2019.