Rama Akkiraju

Rama Akkiraju

IBM, Virtually Human Working Group Member

Rama Akkiraju is an IBM Fellow, Master Inventor, and IBM Academy Member at IBM’s Automation Division where she is the CTO of AI Operations. In her career, Rama led a number of projects in the areas of AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Business process management. Rama has co-authored over 100 technical papers, has 45+ issued patents, 25+ pending and is the recipient of 4 best paper awards in AI and Operations Research. Named ‘Top 20 Women in AI Research’ in May 2017 by Forbes, Rama has been featured in ‘A-Team in AI’ by Fortune magazine in July 2018.