She holds the Anheuser-Busch Chair in MIS, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management and directs the INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics.
[6] She also worked with researchers in the United States and led the creation of a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma-related incidents would plague a Dallas emergency room.
Through the period of three months, Ram and her research team collected air quality data from environmental sensors and gathered and analyzed asthma-related tweets containing certain keywords.
[7] As a result of her research endeavours, Ram was named the co-recipient of the Anheuser-Busch Chair in Entrepreneurship Studies alongside finance professor Sandy Klasa.
[8] In an effort to increase student retention at the university, Ram worked with Arizona's IT department to gather data on freshman ID cards (called CatCard) usage over a three-year period.