Rama Akkiraju

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.

Rama Akkiraju
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York University Stern School of Business (MBA)
Utah State University
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur
EmployerNvidia
Known for
Awards
  • Athena Award for Executive and Technical Leadership (2020)[1]
  • ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award for People Insights (2019)[2]
  • ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award for AI Operations (2020)[2]
  • Decision Sciences Journal Best Article Award (2009)
  • WAEC99 Best Paper Award (1999)

Rama 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.

She was named an IBM Fellow[3] in 2019. She has been an IBM Master Inventor since 2014.

Education

Rama received her MBA at New York University, Stern School of Business in 2004. 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.

Professional contributions

Rama served as the President for ISSIP,[4] a Service Science professional society for 2018, and actively drives AI projects through ISSIP. Rama is the co-chair for the AI Council at CompTIA[5] industry forum. Rama has served as program committee chair, and program committee member for various academic conferences & journals including those organized by IEEE, and ACM.

Career and research

Rama has co-authored over 100 technical papers. Rama 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, Rama, Joel Farrell, John A. Miller, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, and Kunal Verma. "Web service semantics-wsdl-s." (2005).
  • Doshi, Prashant, Richard Goodwin, Rama Akkiraju, and Kunal Verma. "Dynamic workflow composition: Using markov decision processes." International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) 2, no. 1 (2005): 1–17.
  • Akkiraju, Rama, Richard Goodwin, Prashant Doshi, and Sascha Roeder. "A Method for Semantically Enhancing the Service Discovery Capabilities of UDDI." In IIWeb, pp. 87–92. 2003.
  • Elmeleegy, Hazem, Anca Ivan, Rama Akkiraju, and Richard Goodwin. "Mashup advisor: A recommendation tool for mashup development." In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, pp. 337–344. IEEE, 2008.

Rama has delivered many keynote addresses, podcasts[6][7][8][9][5] and blog posts[10][11][12] on artificial intelligence, bias, AI for IT operations etc.

References
  1. "Meet the 2020 Women in Tech Initiative Athena Awards Winners !". 16 January 2020.
  2. "ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award Recipients – ISSIP".
  3. "2019 IBM Fellow Rama Akkiraju". 2019 IBM Fellow Rama Akkiraju. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  4. "Leadership team – ISSIP". issip.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  5. AI Experts Discuss the Truth Behind "The Social Dilemma" | CompTIA AI Advisory Council, retrieved 2022-03-31
  6. Ruth, Joao-Pierre S. (2021-04-21). "IBM Talks AIOps Potential at Digital Developer Conference". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  7. "SuperDataScience". www.superdatascience.com. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  8. Episode 1 - AIOps with Rama Akkiraju, 2020-10-13, retrieved 2022-03-31
  9. Ep6: Automating enterprise IT with Artificial Intelligence, 2021-09-24, retrieved 2022-03-31
  10. "Using Language Models to Optimize IT Operations Management in Watson AIOps". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  11. "Applying natural language understanding to IT operations data to build machine learning models for IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps". IBM Developer. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  12. "Artificial intelligence". IBM Developer. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
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