Sunita Sarawagi
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Sunita Sarawagi | |
|---|---|
| Born | India |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (B.Tech.), University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Data mining, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Website | https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~sunita/ |
Sunita Sarawagi is an Indian computer scientist known for her research in databases, data mining, and machine learning, including the use of natural language processing to extract structured data from text. She is Institute Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.[1]
Sarawagi earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT Kharagpur in 1991. She went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in computer science with database expert Michael Stonebraker, earning a master's degree in 1993 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996, with the master's thesis Efficient Organization of Large Multidimensional Arrays and doctoral dissertation Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases.[2][3]
After working as a researcher for IBM Research at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, she became an assistant professor at IIT Bombay in 1999. She was promoted to associate professor in 2003 and full professor in 2014. Since 2020 she has headed the Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science.[2]
