Dr Haritha Akkineni is currently an associate professor in Information Technology at PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering. She is working in the area of Opinion Mining and Data Sciences. She has twelve years of academic and  research  experience,  Her research interests are Data Science, Image   Mining,   Artificial   Intelligence,   Data  Analytics,  Deep Learning and Machine Learning. She has published about 35 papers in reputed Journals like SCOPUS UGC etc. She has published 2 patents. She has received grants from AICTE for organizing Short Term Training Programs. She is a reviewer for SCOPUS indexed journals. She acted as Workshop/tutorial chair for various International Conferences. She delivered various invited talks.