Dr. Mallik, as CTO of Ericsson Silicon Valley & Group Function Technologies & Architectures, is responsible for innovation, incubation, technology direction & leadership efforts focusing on 5G, distributed cloud/edge compute, SDN/NFV, AI/ML and Internet of Things (IoT). He closely works with Silicon Valley ecosystem, and collaborates with universities, Ericsson Business & Market Areas and Customers. Before joining Ericsson, Mallik was VP/GM & CTO of Service Provider, Cloud & IoT solutions at F5 networks. Prior to F5, he held various leadership positions at Ericsson, Juniper, Cisco, Motorola, Nortel and Indian Telephone Industries.
He has PhD, Master's and Bachelor’s degrees in “communication engineering and networking technologies” from University of Tokyo, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, correspondingly. He is a spokesperson to industry analysts, press/media, and a coauthor of 2 books, 100+ patents and publications. He is a Fellow of IET (UK), senior member of IEEE, biography appeared in Who’s who in science and engineering. Mallik has delivered lectures on “networking technologies” at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Univ of Tokyo. He is a visiting professor at Center for 5G Research at King’s College London.
Mallik serves on advisory boards of “Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)”, “Evanta/Gartner CIO Council,” and several start-ups.