David Hilbert, Ph.D.
I'm a product leader with a rare arc spanning product management, lean innovation, industrial research, and software engineering across Samsung, Fuji Xerox, NASA, and Microsoft.
- Product Manager of multiple mobile and SaaS products
- Lean Innovator and co-founder of Fuji Xerox's Silicon Valley Business Innovation Group
- Research Manager of multiple industrial R&D efforts with 30+ patents, 30 publications, and invited talks at Google, PARC, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
- Product Manager of Instrumented Version of Microsoft Word as summer intern while completing Ph.D.
- Software Engineer of US military and NASA deep space network applications
- Ph.D. in Computer Science; B.A. in Philosophy
- Musician who enjoys writing, recording, and performing Pop, Rock, & Covers in my spare time
Experience
Director, Product Management, Samsung Research America
Mobile Platform Solutions, Enterprise & Security Innovation Lab (2021 - Present)
- Next generation enterprise mobility solutions for Samsung mobile products
- Head of Product (Jul 2025 - Present)
- Director of Product (Mar 2024 - Jun 2025)
- Senior Product Manager (Jan 2021 - Feb 2024)
Senior Product Manager, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Business Innovation Group (Apr 2008 - Jun 2020)
- Co-founded Fuji Xerox's Silicon Valley Business Innovation Group, driving concept generation, market analysis, customer discovery, partner and M&A scouting, MVP definition, product roadmaps, and GTM proposal development.
- Led product for Fuji Xerox's IoT/RTLS Healthcare pilot, delivering a 20% patient throughput increase and 56% wait time reduction at the largest managed care organization in the US.
- Led product for Zoho Motivator, an analytics-driven employee motivation platform that grew to 90K paid users across 18K companies — success that earned its integration into Zoho's core CRM product.
- Led product for Fuji Xerox's SkyDesk business suite, enabling the company's entry into the global SaaS market.
- Managed the marketing websites for Fuji Xerox's SkyDesk Australia and FX Palo Alto Laboratory.
- Co-led technology licensing to startups, including Cinemacraft, to power their Videogram video summarization service.
Senior Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Research Group (Aug 2000 - Mar 2008)
- Responsible for the vision, planning, supervision, IP development, UI design, prototyping, market validation pilots, business case development, and evangelism for several R&D efforts (details).
- 30+ patents (patent list), 20+ publications (details), and invited talks at Google, PARC, Stanford, and UC Berkeley (details).
- Received numerous special achievement awards and selected to co-lead Fuji Xerox strategic initiatives.
Post-Doc & Graduate Student Researcher, UC Irvine
Software Research Group (Sep 1994 - Sep 1999)
- Created a system for collecting usage data and user feedback over the Internet, and published and presented research papers at academic conferences (details).
Summer Intern Product Manager, Microsoft
Word Product Planning Group (Jun 1998 - Aug 1998)
- Product manager of an Instrumented Version of Microsoft Word used to collect usage data from 500-1000 volunteer users (details).
Experience (cont'd)
Software Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Deep Space Network Automation Research Group (Jun 1995 - Sep 1995)
- Conceived, designed, and developed a visual programming environment for deep space network automation procedures (details).
Galileo Telemetry Subsystem Team (Mar 1993 - Sep 1994)
- Designed and developed interactive applications for telemetry monitor and control (details).
EUCOM Decision Support System Team (May 1991 - Mar 1993)
- Designed and developed interactive applications for decision support (details).
Education
- Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
Dissertation: Large-Scale Collection of Application Usage Data and User Feedback to Inform Interactive Software Development (details) - M.S. in Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
Concentrations: Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction - B.A. in Philosophy, Tufts University
Graduated Magna cum Laude. Dean's List 7 out of 8 semesters.
Affiliations, Certifications, Awards
- Member of ACM, IEEE, SIGCHI, SIGSOFT, Phi Beta Kappa
- Berkeley Haas Product Management Certificate Program (Oct 2013)
- AMA’s 5-Day "MBA" Certificate Program (Apr 2011)
- UCI Regents' Dissertation Fellowship
- GAANN Graduate Fellowship
- MICRO Graduate Fellowship
- Tufts Philosophy Department Prize