Rama Akkiraju
Vice president of AI for IT at NVIDIA; former IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations
Rama Akkiraju is a vice president of AI for IT at NVIDIA. Akkiraju previously spent more than two decades at IBM, most recently as an IBM Fellow, Master Inventor and IBM Academy member, and as CTO of the IBM Watson AI Operations product, which applied AI to IT operations management. Earlier at IBM, Akkiraju led the team that built Watson services such as Personality Insights, Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis and Sentiment Analysis, and led work to scale Watson's speech recognition, language understanding and chatbot services to many languages. At IBM's Watson and Almaden research centers, Akkiraju led projects on agent-based decision support, business process management, electronic marketplaces and semantic Web services, including a W3C standard.1
Work
IBM Watson AI servicesProprietary product
Led the IBM team that developed Watson services including Personality Insights, Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis and Sentiment Analysis, and led efforts to scale Watson's speech recognition, natural language understanding and chatbot services to many languages.1
IBM Watson AI OperationsProprietary product
Served as CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations, a product for optimizing IT operations management with AI.1
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