Before joining CSU, Dr. Simske was at a NASA Center for the Commercial Development of Space (1990-1994, part-time till 2007) and at HP from 1994-2018,  where he was an HP Fellow, Vice President, and Director in HP Labs. 

Steve is the author of 7 books and more than 500 publications with more than 240 US patents (many more worldwide). He is an IEEE, NAI and IS&T Fellow, and was IS&T President (2017-2019). Steve was the Steering Committee Chair for the ACM DocEng Symposium (2014-2024), 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. His analytics and AI-relevant books are “Meta-Algorithmics,” “Meta-Analytics,” and “Functional Applications of Text Analytics Systems”. His other books are on determining mistruth, cybersecurity, the engineering of music, and steganography.

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.