Steve Gustafson is currently an advisor at Prasaga and has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Steve has held various positions including Chief Technology Officer at Noonum, and Chief Scientist at MAANA. Steve has also been a contributing author for Forbes Technology Council and a technical editor-in-chief for Springer Nature. In addition to their work in the private sector, Steve has also been an advisor for Data-X: A Framework for Digital Transformation at University of California, Berkeley and Chair of the Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Schenectady Section.
Steve Gustafson has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, where they studied artificial intelligence methods, specifically heuristic based search and optimization methods for automatic learning of programs and models from the data through the metaphor of biological evolution. Steve also has a degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University, where they studied computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Additionally, they are a Six Sigma Black Belt and a Six Sigma Green Belt.