Steve Lukasik

Chief Scientist of the Federal Communications Commission, Lukasik advised the Commission on technical issues in communication regulation and the management of non-government use of the electromagnetic spectrum.

He received a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His early research at Stevens Institute of Technology was on the physics of fluids and plasmas. While a member of the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), he was responsible for research in support of nuclear test ban negotiations and subsequently served from 1967–1974 as Deputy Director and Director of the Agency.

His later government service included serving as Chief Scientist of the Federal Communications Commission, 1979–1982. He has been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal in 1973 and 1974, and a D. Eng. (Hon.) from Stevens Institute of Technology.

He has been a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lukasik founded The Information Society: An International Journal, and has served on the Boards of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College and Stevens Institute of Technology. He has held an appointment as Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.