Ramya Akula
Adjunct Faculty at University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRamya Akula is an AI-focused researcher and adjunct faculty at the University of Central Florida with eight years of experience spanning academia, industry, and entrepreneurship. She holds advanced degrees in intelligent systems and is completing PhD work in AI and complex adaptive systems, where her team’s DARPA-recognized research on sarcasm detection highlights a pragmatic pursuit of hard problems in natural language understanding. As founder of Brillbot and former Chief AI Officer at The Lifedu, she blends hands-on system development with product-minded leadership, and earlier roles at Airbus and research centers gave her strong software engineering and test discipline. Based in Orlando, she brings a cross-cultural technical background from India and Germany and a knack for translating behavioral science into computational models. Her work emphasizes human-centered AI—putting "humanity first"—and seeks to make subtle social signals machine-interpretable in real-world cyber-physical systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Specialization - Intelligent Systems, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Specialization - Intelligent Systems at University of KaiserslauternDoctor of Philosophy - PhD ABD, Computer Science - AI & Intelligent Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD ABD, Computer Science - AI & Intelligent Systems at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (8)
jupyterlab9
textbook9
python8
data-science5
twitter3
lstm2
keras2
neural-network1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
akula01/DeepFork
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 1 branch in 8 months
akula01/Text-Analysis-NLP
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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