Dr. Sami Atiya
- Company
- ABB
- Job title
- President of the Robotics and Discrete Automation business
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Dr. Sami Atiya is President of the Robotics and Discrete Automation business and a member of ABB’s Group Executive Committee. He was appointed to ABB’s Executive Committee in June 2016. In addition to this role, Dr. Atiya leads all Artificial Intelligence initiatives and their integration across the organization's global workforce of over 100,000 employees.
Dr. Atiya is also a member of the Board of Directors of SGS Inc., the Swiss global leader in inspection, verification and certification.
Before joining ABB, Dr. Atiya held senior roles at Siemens in Germany from 1997 to 2015, including CEO of the Mobility and Logistics Business in Munich from 2011 and CEO of Computer Tomography in the Healthcare sector in Erlangen from 2008 – 2011.
Before this, Dr. Atiya was Managing Director at Harald Balzer & Partner in Stuttgart, Germany after working for Robert Bosch in Germany and on Robotics and AI research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing in Karlsruhe.
Dr. Atiya has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, US, a PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in robots, sensors and artificial intelligence, University of Wuppertal / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
