Azimeh Sefidcon

Azimeh Sefidcon was Director, Cloud Systems and Platforms Research at Ericsson from 2014 to 2022.

With her first MSc in hardware engineering, Azimeh started her career with embedded programming. She found the complex systems in the telecom domain fascinating and pursued further education with another MSc in intelligent networks, focusing on network services. With the network compute convergence in mind, she continued with PhD research in that area, centered on mobility and IP.

During her career at Ericsson, Azimeh held several technology leading roles.  She serves on the Board of Directors for the Wallenberg center for quantum technologies (WACQT) and was a board member of the Swedish national strategic agenda for the future automation and process industry (PiiA) from 2019 to 2021.