This page contains my official biography, as well as some details on how best to contact me.
1. Biography
A chartered engineer and technologist, a non-executive director, advisor, and ambassador. Sylvia has over a decade of experience in the Telecoms industry for four mobile generations (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G) and was recognized as one of the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering. Sylvia is a Fellow of RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce).
Sylvia is Head of Technology Strategy at u-blox, – a Swiss creator and global leader of wireless chipsets and modules, where she heads cellular technology strategy, global standards, and industry alliances.
Sylvia 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 key stakeholders to influence 5G development and deployment in line with industrial imperatives. She was re-elected for a second term in Dec 2022.
Sylvia operates on an international stage as a keynote speaker on 5G, emerging technologies, and global standards for a wide range of stakeholders (highlights incl. the House of Lords, Westminster eForum, United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union, Mobile World Congress, Ofcom, Financial Times Live, IET, IEEE), and contributes to industry magazines and journals, some of which have been translated into 7 languages with a global reach.
Sylvia was handpicked as an Ambassador for the Women of the Future programme; she inspires and empowers female engineers and future leaders as a role model, and through appearances and talks at schools and universities. She won several special recognition for her work on empowering future female trailblazers. Most recently, Sylvia was named in the prestigious Computer Weekly “Most Influential Women in the UK Tech” 2020 and 2021 list.
Sylvia is also an amateur artist and was recently awarded a Fellowship at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges for a better future for people.
Sylvia is an Executive MBA candidate at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School since Q3’2021, and a graduate student at Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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 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 