Rama Akkiraju


Rama Akkiraju is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, home of the Watson computer. She has been cited over 3,000 times, and performs research in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly helming the team responsible for the "Tone Analyzer". She leads the mission of "People Insights" at IBM, developing "technologies that infer personalities, emotions, tone, attitudes, and intentions from social media data using linguistic and machine learning techniques".
In 2019 IBM listed her as an IBM Fellow.

Selected research