Mazin Gilbert
Vice President of Advanced Technology and Systems, AT&T Research

Mazin Gilbert is the vice president of advanced technology and systems at AT&T Labs. He leads AT&T’s research and advanced development of its network and access transformations, where he oversees advancements in artificial intelligence, software-defined networking and access, digital transformation, cloud technologies, open source software platforms, and big data. He holds 176 US patents in communication and multimedia processing and has published over 100 technical papers in human-machine communication. He’s the author of the book Artificial Neural Networks for Speech Analysis/Synthesis and an editor of a recent book Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Networks. Previously, Mazin worked for Bell Labs, BBC, and British Telecom and in academia at Rutgers University, Princeton University, and Liverpool University. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2012. Mazin holds a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree, with first-class honors, in electrical engineering from the University of Liverpool and an MBA for executives from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of his technology career, Mazin is an entrepreneur, owning five limited liability companies specializing in commercial and residential real estate and the dental industry. He also serves as a chair of the Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation board and a board member at the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley). Mazin loves to spend time with his daughters and is an avid runner.