Steve received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2004, an M.S. in Engineering Management from Northwestern University in 1995, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990. Prior to academia, Steve worked in certification and telecommunication industries as project and R&D engineers. Steve is a Guest Editor for the Journal of Supercomputing, and serves on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Handheld Computing Research. Steve is a member of Tau Beta Pi.