Sunita Sarawagi is an Indian computer scientist known for her research in

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s, data mining, and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

, including the use of

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...

to extract structured data from text. She is Institute Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at

IIT Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...

Education and career

Sarawagi earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from

IIT Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in 1991. She went to the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

for graduate study in computer science with database expert

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, 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''. After working as a researcher for

IBM Research IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. IBM Research is the largest industrial research org ...

at the Almaden Research Center in

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, 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.

Recognition

Sarawagi was the winner of the 2019

Infosys Prize The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to re ...

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". In the same year, IIT Kharagpur gave her their Distinguished Alumni Award, and IIT Bombay gave her their Prof. H. H. Mathur Excellence Award in Applied Sciences. She was named to the

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The Academy is registered under the Societies Reg ...

in 2013, and was elected as a 2021

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"for contributions to statistical machine learning for information analysis, extraction, and integration".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarawagi, Sunita Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian computer scientists Indian women computer scientists IIT Kharagpur alumni Academic staff of IIT Bombay Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery