Industry

• Head of Trustworthy AI |Senior Research Manager, Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden from Nov 2021 till todate 

• Adjunct Professor in Trustworthy CPS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden from May 2022 till todate

• Senior Project Manager, Artificial Intelligence (RA AI), Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden from 2019 till Oct 2021 

  • I drive AI/ Data Science projects for Telco/non-telco domains including teams upto 20-30 people for different internal and external stakeholders. It includes defining the projects, their scope and targets, allocating resources and executing the work while keeping a constant connection with stakeholders to align the work.

  • Organizing Patent workshops for whole AI research area (50+ persons) with some other research area or business unit resulting in high patent numbers

  • AI Techniques applied to Telco and Smart factory domains: Telco projects using different AI techniques like machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL), explainable AI, counter factuals and explainable RL. Non-Telco projects: Trustworthy AI algorithms (fuzzy logic, RL, neural networks, explainable AI and explainable RL ) to implement safety for collaborative robots in smart factories 

• Single Point of Contact for BMAS from Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden. Feb 2019 - todate

  • Main driver and Single Point of Contact for BMAS for all activities that Research area AI has with BMAS, managing a team of 20+ people. Resulted in a successful collaboration, and Key Impact award for 2019, and Top Performance Winner for 2020.

• PhD Supervisor, Artificial Intelligence (RA AI), Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden from 2019 till to-date 

  • WASP Industrial supervisor, topic "Explainable AI for Intelligent networks".

  • Co-supervisor, topic "A generic framework for integration of CPS by use of intelligent agents"

• Senior Researcher, Research Area AI, Ericsson Research, Stockholm,  2017 - 2019

  • Research on automation and safety for CPS. Working on safety for collaborative robots in an automated warehouse by using risk management and AI-based (fuzzy-logic, neuro-fuzzy) algorithms in SCOTT project, developing an overall safety strategy for automated warehouse and writing research papers.

  • Project Leader of SCOTT project, reporting for ESCEL and Vinnova, leading team of 10+ people, keeping track of the work status and involved in main deliverables of the project.

  • Leader of Technical Intelligence Group for RA MIA from Jan 2017 - Dec 2017. Lead a team of 7 people, and during the year we stretched all targets. Member of core team, writing articles and assessment reports for the Program.

• Experienced Researcher, Research Area MOCS, Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Jan 2015 - 2017

  • Main driver and receiver for the Safety projects with the University of Sao Paulo Brazil. Defining the project scope, objectives and driving the work from the start of the proposal till end of the project including co-authoring articles, organizing Safety Workshops with ER Kista, ER Brazil, and University of Sao Paulo.

  • Involved in defining project proposals: SCOTT (EU project), 2 Safety projects with USP, and in other EU Projects  

  • Involved in defining Ericsson Principles to mitigate AI Challanges in public and private safety 

  • Author/coauthor of 8 research articles in 2018 published in conferences, and Ericsson Mobility Report and Technology Review articles

• Single Point of Contact for Scania from Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden. Sep 2017 - Feb 2019

  • Single Point of Contact for Scania from Ericsson Research,

  • Building a research wide portfolio on all 5G activities/projects for Automotive and Transportation domains with Scania,

  • Technical writing presenting results/insights/

  • Work on developing a 10 years joint 5G Roadmap with Scania research.

• Software Engineer, Norsk Data Pvt. Pakistan.  Sep1997 - Dec 1998

Academia

• Teacher, KTH, "Smart Cyber-Physical Systems" course, 2023, 2022, 2021

• Principal Investigator at TECoSA Center KTH 

• Teaching Assistant, Mälardalen University Sweden. Sep 2010 - Dec 2014

  • Teacher Assistant for Embedded Systems 1 course

  • Teacher Assist. Embedded Systems Project course

  • Guest Lecture in Parallel Systems course

  • Master thesis supervision (30 cr)

  • Thesis courses (7.5 or 15 cr)

• Lecturer,  Department of Computer Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan.  April 2001 -Sep 2007

  • Main Examiner, course developer, and teacher for these courses: Object-Oriented Programming using Java, Software Engineering, UML Design, Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics

  • Supervising thesis of students at M.Sc and Bachelors Level during all these years.

• Visiting Lecturer, different universities in Pakistan. 1997-2000

  • Main Examiner, course developer, and teacher: Object-Oriented Programming using Java, Programming in C/C++, Visual J++, Data structures.