Scholar
Rafia Inam
Google Scholar ID: 3hr4-M0AAAAJ
Senior Research Leader at Ericsson, Adjunct Professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,018
H-index
16
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-authored 50+ peer-reviewed scientific publications
- Holds 60+ patent families
- Best Paper Award at IEEE SOCNE 2015: “Towards automated service-oriented lifecycle management for 5G networks”
- Best Paper Award at IEEE ETFA 2011: “Support for Hierarchical Scheduling in FreeRTOS”
- Ericsson Top Performance Competition 2021 for AI in 5G network slice assurance
- Ericsson Key Impact Award 2020
- Key Contributor Award 2020 and 2023
- Serves as Program Committee member, referee, and guest editor for multiple international conferences and journals
Research Experience
- Nov 2021–present: Head of Trustworthy AI / Senior Research Manager, Ericsson AB
- May 2022–present: Adjunct Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Feb 2019–Oct 2021: Senior Project Manager, Ericsson AB
- Nov 2017–Feb 2019: Senior Researcher, Ericsson AB
- Jan 2015–Nov 2017: Experienced Researcher, Ericsson AB
- Conducting research at Ericsson since 2015 on 5G for industries, network slicing, AI-driven automation, and Intelligent Transport Systems
Background
- Head of Trustworthy AI and Senior Research Manager at Ericsson
- Adjunct Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Research interests include: Trustworthy AI, Explainable AI (XAI), Explainable Reinforcement Learning (Explainable RL)
- Focuses on EU AI Act-based standardization, AI risk assessment and mitigation
- Applies AI to automation, safety, and service modeling in telecom and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
- Long-term research on 5G for industries, 5G network slicing and management, and Intelligent Transport Systems
