Sunita Sarawagi researches in the fields of databases, data mining, and machine learning. Her current research interests are web information extraction, data integration, graphical models and structured learning. She is associate professor at IIT Bombay. Prior to that she was a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center. She got her PhD in databases from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelors degree from IIT Kharagpur. She has several publications in databases and data mining and several patents. She serves on the board of directors of ACM SIGKDD and VLDB foundation. She was program chair for the ACM SIGKDD 2008 conference, research track co-chair for the VLDB 2011 conference and has served as program committee member for SIGMOD, VLDB, SIGKDD, ICDE, and ICML conferences. She is/was on the editorial board of the ACM TODS, ACM TKDD, and FnT for machine learning journals.