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Short bio:

Rafia Inam Rafia Inam is a senior research manager at Ericsson Research and Adjunct Professor at KTH in research area Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Sweden. She has conducted research for Ericsson since 2015 on 5G for industries, 5G network slices and management, using AI for automation, service modeling for Intelligent Transport Systems. She is specialized in trustworthy AI, explainable AI, explainable RL, AI Regulations specially EU AI Act, risk assessment and mitigations using AI methods, automation and safety for telecom and CPS. 

Rafia received her Ph.D. from Mälardalen University, Sweden, in 2014 on predictable real-time embedded software. She is a Program Committee member, referee, guest editor for several international conferences and journals. Rafia has co-authored 50+ refereed scientific publications and 60+ patent families. She has won best paper awards on her two papers: “Towards automated service-oriented lifecycle management for 5G networks”, at the IEEE’s 9th International Workshop on Service Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE) in 2015, and “Support for Hierarchical Scheduling in FreeRTOS” in 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA’11), September 2011. She won Ericsson Top Performance Competition 2021 on her work on AI for 5G network slice assurance, and was awarded Ericsson Key Impact Award 2020, and Key contributor award 2020, and 2023.

My areas of Interest are:

• Trustworthy AI, AI ACT based standardization

• Explainable AI, Explainable RL

• Automation, safety and Trustworthy AI for Collaborative robots using Machine Learning and AI algorithms

• 5G Management for industries specially automotive, and smart manufacturing

• Real-time embedded systems.

• Hierarchical scheduling for unicore and multicore platforms.

• Intelligent Transport Systems.

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, 2014, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. 

• Licentiate. Computer Science and Engineering, 2012, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.

• Masters. Networks and Distributed Systems, 2010, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.