Rama Akkiraju

Rama Akkiraju is an Indian-born American computer scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center. She is the CTO of AI for IT Operations at IBM 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, Hyderabad
EmployerIBM
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.

Publications and awards

Rama has authored over 100+ technical papers[13] in the areas of Computer Science. She has won numerous industry awards and recognitions.

  • Top 20 women in AI 2017 by Forbes magazine[14]
  • ‘A-Team for AI’ by Fortune[15] magazine (2018)
  • Top 10 Pioneering Women in AI and Machine Learning[16] by Enterprise Management 360 (2019)
  • Top 10 women in Data Science[17] nomination from Silicon Republic
  • Top 10 marketing-related AI thought leaders[18] by ClickZ Magazine
  • University of California, Berkeley's Athena Award[19] for Executive and Technical Leadership (2020)
  • YWCA Technical Women in Industry (Twin) award (2014)
  • Co-chair of the AI Council at CompTIA industry organization since 2020.
  • President of International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)[4] (2018)
  • COMPTIA Spotlight Award, Industry Advisory Councils Leadership Award[20]

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. WriterApril 21, Joao-Pierre S. RuthSenior; 2021 (2021-04-21). "IBM Talks AIOps Potential at Digital Developer Conference". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2022-03-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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.
  13. "dblp: Rama Akkiraju". dblp.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  14. Yao, Mariya. "Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  15. "Can This Startup Break Big Tech's Hold on A.I.?". Fortune. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  16. "Hilary Mason - One of Best Machine Learning Scientist | EM360". em360tech.com. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  17. Darmody, Jenny (2020-10-13). "10 women leading the way in data science". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  18. "Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow and Director at IBM Watson". ClickZ. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  19. "Meet the 2020 Women in Tech Initiative Athena Awards Winners !". CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  20. "Five Technology Industry Leaders Honored with CompTIA 2021 Spotlight Awards". CompTIA Technology Interest Groups. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.