Miguel Familiar-Cabero, PhD

Miguel Familiar-Cabero is a Core Network AI Director at Ericsson. He also acts as Academic Director and Professor in AI and Deep Learning at UNIE University, Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Telecommunications from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; an Executive Master’s in Business Administration (first-class honors) from both EAE Business School Madrid and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; and M.Sc. degrees (first-class honors) in Telematics Engineering from both Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. He holds a degree in Technical Telecommunications Engineering (valedictorian, COITT recognition) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. He has built his career in the telecommunications industry as both network equipment provider (Ericsson, HPE) and communication service provider (KPN The Netherlands). His research interests include 5G and 6G, with a focus on applying AI/ML and cloud-native software architectures to 3GPP mobile core and RAN.