This page contains my official biography, as well as some details on how best to contact me.
1. Biography
Sylvia is an award-winning Chartered Engineer and Non-Executive Director. Sylvia has over 16 years of experience in the Telecom industry for four mobile generations with semiconductor vendors. Sylvia provides guidance on the impact of emerging technologies on products and corporate strategy, influences global standards, accelerates the adoption of new technologies, and provides independent advice to industry and policy stakeholders.
Sylvia serves on several national and global industry Boards: she is an elected CW (Cambridge Wireless) Board Director since 2017 and was appointed to the Advisory Board of UK5G in 2018. She was appointed as Vice-chair of the UK5G International Working Group in 2019, and co-chair of UK5G Manufacturing WG, co-leading the development of the UK proposition and engagement plan with overseas government and industry sectors.
In 2020, Sylvia was elected to the Board of 5G-ACIA (5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation) to set strategic direction, and collaborate with ICT and OT stakeholders to maximise the applicability of 5G technology in connected industries, in particular the manufacturing and process sectors. The mission of 5G-ACIA is to strive to ensure that new 5G developments – including possible integration concepts and migration paths – are understood by and transferred to the industrial domain, and also evaluate key technologies emerging from 5G standardization bodies. She was re-elected for a second term in Dec 2022.
Since 2023, Sylvia was appointed to the Advisory Board of UKTIN, which provides independent advice on the telecoms sector, champions the opportunities in telecoms research, development, and innovation for the UK, and helps UKTIN provide impartial input to the government.
Sylvia operates on an international stage as a keynote speaker for a wide range of stakeholders. Highlights incl. the House of Lords, Financial Times Live, Westminster eForum, United Nations International Telecommunication Union, Mobile World Congress, Hannover Messe, Ofcom, IET, IEEE, ABI Research, 5G Techritory Forum, 6G Symposium etc.), and contributes to industry magazines and journals, some of which have been translated into 7 languages with a global reach.
She holds a first-class Electronic Engineering degree, a Master of Science degree in Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Bristol. She graduated with a Distinction from the University of Oxford in PGDip Strategy & Innovation, and an Executive MBA degree from the University of Cambridge.
Sylvia is also an amateur artist.
Invited speaker at Mobile World Congress 2024 – 29 Feb 2024
Invited speaker at Cambridge Judge Business School – for the MPhil Technology Policy students – 29 Sep 2023
Panel chair at 5G-ACIA Industrial 5G Day in Taipei – Dec 2023
Chairing Hannover Messe Industrial 4.0 Stage – 1 June 2022
Session on: IoT in Manufacturing: Automation, Optimization, and Robots.
Session on: IoT in Manufacturing: Automation, Optimization, and Robots.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of IET Engineering the Future of Communications series.
Sylvia was recognised as UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering by the Women Engineering Society and was featured in the Guardian newspaper.
Sylvia was nominated as an Asian Women of Achievement Awards finalist in the Science and Technology Category, an award to recognise and celebrate the phenomenal Asian women across the UK and across industries, who are making a valuable and important contribution to British life.
2. Contact
The best way to contact me is as follows:
sylvia.lu 