Steve Simske was a payload specialist and lab director at a NASA Center for the Commercial Development of Space 1990-2003, and at HP from 1994-2018. He was an HP Fellow, Vice President, and Director in HP Labs. He is the author of more than 500 publications and more than 200 US patents. He is an IS&T Fellow, and its immediate past President (2017-2019). Steve is the Steering Committee Chair for the ACM DocEng Symposium, which meets annually. Dr. Simske was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils from 2010-2016, including Illicit Trade, Illicit Economy and the Future of Electronics. In his 20+ years in industry, Steve directed teams in research on 3D printing, education, life sciences, sensing, authentication, packaging, analytics, imaging and manufacturing. He is the author of four books, with three more in the works. At CSU, he has a cadre of on-campus students in Systems, Mechanical, and Biomedical Engineering, along with a larger contingent of on-line/remote graduate students researching in a wide variety of disciplines.
