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Rama Akkiraju is a Computer Scientist at IBM Research, Almaden, United States. She has been featured as one of the Top 20 Women in AI Research in 2017.

Education
Akkiraju completed her Masters degree in Computer Science at the Utah State University in 1995 with a thesis on heuristic techniques. She also has an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business, and a B Tech (1993) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.

Career
Akkiraju has been working on agent-based decision support systems, electronic marketplaces, and business process integration technologies.

Akkiraju led an World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard in the area of Semantic web service - Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SA_WSDL).

Research
She is leading the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Operations mission at IBM Watson group.