Sunita Sarawagi

Sunita Sarawagi is a Professor at Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, and a member of AI Labs@CSE. She is also associated with the Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (CMInDS), which she founded in 2020.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (Thesis: Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases), BTech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur

Research Interests span machine learning, data analytics, graphical models, and structured learning, with applications in text segmentation, sequence modeling, domain adaptation, and human-in-the-loop systems. Her publications reveal a strong focus on integrating data mining with database systems, temporal data analysis, and information extraction using probabilistic methods.

Professional Activities include serving on the IEEE John Von Neumann Medal committee (2017-), VLDB 2011 Research Track Co-chair, and multiple program committee roles at top conferences like ICML, KDD, and SIGMOD.

Labs & Teams: Leads the SS Lab, a research group focused on probabilistic graphical models, sequence modeling, and data integration techniques.