Confessions of an AI Brain

Elena Fersman is a Vice President and Head of Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator at Ericsson. Elena is Docent and Adjunct Professor in Cyber-Physical Systems specialized in Automation at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She has a PhD in Computer Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. During her career, she has held various positions within computer science and artificial intelligence research, development, and product management. Elena has served on boards in private and state owned companies and is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Elena has co-authored over 50 patent families in computer science and telecommunications.

Athanasios Karapantelakis is a Principal Researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Ericsson and holds a PhD from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Athanasios has co-authored over 75 patent families and over 15 peer-reviewed scientific conference publications. In his professional life, he held various engineering-related positions, from software engineering, to cloud and AI research.

Paul Pettersson is Professor of Real-time systems at Mälardalen University, Sweden. He has a PhD in Computer Systems and has been appointed Docent in Computer Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Pettersson has co-authored over 100 scientific papers, articles, and book chapters in Computer Science. During his career, he has held various leadership positions in academia, including Vice-Chancellor (President) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Mälardalen University. He has also served on a number of boards of deeptech startup companies, science parks, and governmental authorities. Professor Pettersson received the Computer Aided Verification Award in 2013.