David Hilbert is Director of Product Management at Samsung Research America’s Enterprise & Security Innovation Lab, where he leads next-generation Samsung mobile solutions for enterprise. His career spans a broad arc — from software engineer to industrial researcher to product leader — across Samsung, Fuji Xerox, NASA, and Microsoft.

David began his career as a software engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on the Galileo mission and Deep Space Network automation research. His doctoral research focused on large-scale collection of application usage data to inform software design, principles he applied firsthand as a product manager intern at Microsoft during his studies.

After his doctorate, David joined Fuji Xerox’s Palo Alto Laboratory, where he rose from Senior Research Scientist to Senior Product Manager and co-founded FXPAL’s Silicon Valley Business Innovation Group. His R&D efforts spanned ubiquitous computing, IoT, and SaaS, garnering 30+ patents, 20+ publications, and invited talks at Google, PARC, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.

Beyond his technical career, David holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Tufts University, where he won the Tufts Philosophy Department Prize and participated in a graduate seminar with Daniel Dennett reviewing the manuscript for Consciousness Explained, his landmark 1991 work in philosophy of mind. He has also performed in gigging bands since the age of fourteen, a cherished outlet that brings balance and joy to life beyond shipping product.

And most importantly, David is a proud father of two great kids: his daughter who studied computer science at Trinity College Dublin and is now a software engineer in Ireland; and his son who’s studying business at Arizona State University while launching his own career in technology sales.

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