Mimi Tam was the CTO/Head of Emerging Technologies, Engineering & Research for the Wireless Office at Ericsson. She also held the role of Senior Director of Engineering at Ericsson. She has over 35 years of leadership and engineering experience in the Telecom/Wireless software engineering industry. She started as a long-time embedded software engineer, signaling protocol developer, and wireless networking architect. She is heavily involved in standards from TDM to IP, fixed-mobile convergence, 2G, 3G, WiMAX, 4G/LTE, 5G, and is a research scientist for 6G.
Doctor Tam worked at large companies, including Verizon Labs, Motorola, IBM, Computer Associates, etc., as well as many startups, including her entrepreneurial venture at one point. The last 5 years' focus includes M2M/IoT horizontal service platform technology, IoT vertical apps, e.g., Smart Cities, VR/AR/MR, Drones, Smart Grids, etc. autonomous networking (SON), SDN/NFV network transformation, Network Slicing, Intent-Based Networking design, Quantum Computing/IBM Q Experience, etc. She is also a full-time and adjunct Computer Science professor at UMASS, SNHU, University of Cumberlands, and Boston College/Woods College.
She is a textbook author and a graduate-level course developer at various universities. She has two YouTube channels, one focused on 3GPP wireless protocols and the other on AI/ML made-easy series lectures.
