Rama Akkiraju Explained

Rama Akkiraju
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:New York University Stern School of Business (MBA)
Utah State University
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur
Employer:Nvidia

Rama Akkiraju is an Indian-born American computer scientist. She is vice president of AI for IT at Nvidia and performs research in the field of artificial intelligence.

Akkiraju started her career at the T. J. Watson Research Center in New York and later moved to IBM Almaden Research Center. She served as the Distinguished Engineer and Director of Engineering at IBM's Watson Division from 2015 to 2019.

Akkiraju was named an IBM Fellow[1] in 2019. She has been an IBM Master Inventor since 2014.

Education

Akkiraju received her MBA at New York University, Stern School of Business in 2004, where she earned a gold medal for highest academic excellence.[2] She received her M.S. in Computer Science from Utah State University in 1995 and her B.Tech. in Electronics engineering from JNTU College of Engineering, in Andhra Pradesh, India in 1993.[3]

Professional contributions

Akkiraju served as the President for ISSIP,[4] a Service Science professional society for 2018, and actively drives AI projects through ISSIP. Akkiraju is the co-chair for the AI Council at CompTIA industry forum. Akkiraju has served as program committee chair, and program committee member for various academic conferences & journals including those organized by IEEE, and ACM.

While at IBM, Akkiraju led the "People Insights" on the IBM Watson team, developing technologies to infer personalities, emotions, tone, attitudes, and intentions from social media data.[5]

Akkiraju has co-authored over 100 technical papers. Akkiraju has 45+ issued patents and 25+ pending. She is the recipient of 4 best paper awards in AI and Operations Research areas from AAAI and INFORMs.

Akkiraju has delivered many keynote addresses, podcasts[6] [7] and blog posts[8] [9] [10] on artificial intelligence, bias, AI for IT operations etc.

Awards and honors

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-04-11 . 2019 IBM Fellow Rama Akkiraju . 2022-03-29 . 2019 IBM Fellow Rama Akkiraju . en-US.
  2. Web site: Rama Akkiraju . 2023-08-13 . Women in Data Science (WiDS) . en.
  3. 1999 . Back Matter . Interfaces . 29 . 5 . 25062533 . 0092-2102.
  4. Web site: Leadership team – ISSIP . 2022-03-31 . issip.org.
  5. Web site: Yao . Mariya . Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research . 2023-08-13 . Forbes . en.
  6. Web site: Joao-Pierre S. . Ruth . 2021-04-21 . IBM Talks AIOps Potential at Digital Developer Conference . 2022-03-31 . InformationWeek . en.
  7. Web site: SuperDataScience . 2022-03-31 . www.superdatascience.com.
  8. Web site: Using Language Models to Optimize IT Operations Management in Watson AIOps . 2022-03-30 . www.ibm.com . 9 November 2020 . en-us.
  9. Web site: Applying natural language understanding to IT operations data to build machine learning models for IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps . 2022-03-30 . IBM Developer . en-US.
  10. Web site: Artificial intelligence . 2022-03-30 . IBM Developer . en-US.
  11. Web site: Hilary Mason - One of Best Machine Learning Scientist EM360 . 2023-08-13 . em360tech.com . en.
  12. Web site: EDGE in Tech Initiative Athena Awards - University of California . 2023-08-13 . EDGE in Tech Initiative at UC . en-US.
  13. Web site: ISSIP Excellence In Service Innovation Award Past Recipients . 2023-08-13 . ISSIP . en-US.
  14. Web site: 2021-04-09 . Transform 2021 Women in AI VentureBeat Events . 2023-08-13 . en-US.

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