Stuart Strickland is Wireless CTO and an HPE Fellow at HPE Networking. His team represents HPE in wireless standards bodies, advances industry interests with regulators, runs a wireless lab generating performance and interoperability data, develops and prepares innovative product concepts for commercialization, and oversees customer pilots of new technologies. Stuart is the principal architect of HPE’s enterprise 5G strategy and its location technology initiatives. He has held leadership positions in the Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Broadband Alliance and serves on the steering committee the Wireless Innovation Forum’s 6 GHz Committee.
Prior to joining HPE, Stuart led Wi-Fi/small cell convergence and hybrid location strategies at Qualcomm, directing the team that developed the first time-based Wi-Fi ranging techniques. He served as Vice President of the Location Based Services Business Unit at Cambridge Silicon Radio, driving the initial adoption of GPS receivers in mobile phones, and he directed the GNSS receiver product line at SiGe Semiconductor, championing low-cost software-defined receiver architectures. As lead software architect at Siemens Mobile Networks, Stuart played a key role in the development of the first 3G mobile networks.
Before turning his attention to future technologies, Stuart trained as a historian of science, publishing extensively on the history of self-experimentation and the ideology of subjective experience in German Romanticism and co-founding the history of science program at Northwestern University.
Stuart earned his undergraduate degree in the Philosophy of Mathematics from Columbia University and his PhD in the History & Philosophy of Science from Harvard University. He has held research fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Max Planck Society.