Soumen Chakrabarti and Sunita Sarawagi among 10 Best Machine Learning Researchers in India
Two CS alumni, Soumen Chakrabarti (Ph.D. ’96, advisor: Katherine Yelick) and Sunita Sarawagi (Ph.D. ’96, advisor: Michael Stonebraker), both currently CSE professors at IIT Bombay, have made the 2018 list of Analytics India Magazine’s Top 10 Machine Learning Researchers in India. Chakrabarti’s research interests include better embedding representation for passages, entities, types and relation; searching the annotated Web with entities, types and relations; and Graph conductance search. He holds eight US patents, has produced 167 research papers, and authored one of the earliest books on web search and mining. Sarawagi is interested in deep learning, web information extraction, data integration, graphical models and structured learning. She has published more than 130 research papers and holds four patents.