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] Sarawagi was the winner of the 2019 Infosys Prize 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".
[2] She was named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2013,[2] and was elected as a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to statistical machine learning for information analysis, extraction, and integration".