Stuart Strickland

Stuart Strickland is Wireless Chief Technology Officer and Fellow at HPE Aruba Networking. His team represents HPE in wireless standards bodies, advances industry interests with regulators, runs a wireless lab generating performance and interoperability data, develops new product concepts, and oversees customer deployments of new technologies and features. Stuart is the principal architect of HPE’s enterprise 5G strategy, Aruba Air Pass to enable cellular roaming onto enterprise Wi-Fi networks, and the Open Locate indoor location technology initiative.

Prior to joining HPE in 2015, 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.