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Ted Hardie is currently Director, Internet and Wireless, for Qualcomm's Research and Development group. His research interests cover a broad range of Internet technologies, but are currently focused on novel data distribution methods, locality of service, and identifiers for non-hierarchical systems.
Dr. Hardie first worked in the Internet field in 1988 when he joined the operations staff of the SRI NIC. He later became the technical lead for the NASA NIC, part of the NASA Science Internet project. After leaving NASA, he joined Equinix as its initial Director of Engineering before taking on the role of Director of Research and Development. He was an early-stage executive at Nominum, and he remains on Nominum's technical advisory board. He has served the Internet community as a member of the Internet Architecture Board, as an Applications Area Director for the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), as member of the Internet Society's Board of Trustees, and as an author of multiple RFCs. He has also been an invited speaker and document reviewer for many operational meetings and technical conferences.
Dr. Hardie received his bachelor’s degree from Yale and his doctorate from Stanford. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Yale-China Fellow, both in Hong Kong.
Dr. Hardie has been an ISOC Trustee since June 2007, also serving as a member of the ISOC Audit Committee since that date.
