Rafia Inam is a Senior Research Manager at Ericsson Research in Trustworthy AI and Adjunct Professor at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. She has conducted research for Ericsson for the past ten years on 5G for industries, network slices, and network management; and AI for automation. She specializes in trustworthy AI, Explainable AI, risk assessment and mitigations using AI methods, and safety for cyber-physical systems for telecom and CPS. She is also contributing to trustworthy AI based standardization specially to European standards in CEN/CLC based on EU AI Act.
Rafia received her PhD in predictable real-time embedded software from Mälardalen University in 2014. She has co-authored 55+ refereed scientific publications and 60+ patent families, and 2 best paper awards. She won Ericsson Top Performance Competition 2021 on her work on AI for 5G network slice assurance and was awarded multiple Ericsson Key Impact Awards.