Dr. Mazin Gilbert is the Vice President of Technology and Innovation at AT&T. He leads AT&T’s Research, Innovation centers and Advanced Development of its network and access transformations. In this role, Mazin oversees advancements in artificial intelligence, network automation, open access, digital transformation, and open source software platforms. Mazin holds 180 U.S. patents in communication and multimedia processing and has published over 100 technical papers in human-machine communication. He is the author of the book titled, “Artificial Neural Networks for Speech Analysis/Synthesis,” 1992, and an editor of a recent book on “Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Networks,” 2018.

Mazin earned a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree, with first-class honors, in electrical engineering from the University of Liverpool. He also earned 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. He is a frequent speaker at various national and international venues, serves as a Chair of the Linux Foundation AI Foundation board, and a board member at the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley). He became an IEEE Fellow in 2012.