Stephen M. Goodnick is a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the deputy director of ASU Lightworks in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.

He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in 1983. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Modena, Italy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 1985 and 1986, respectively. He served as Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering with Arizona State University, Tempe, from 1996 to 2005. He served as associate vice president for research for Arizona State University from 2006 to 2008, and presently serves as deputy director of ASU Lightworks, and is Hans Fischer Senior Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University of Munich. 

Professionally, he served as president (2012-2013) of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, and served as president of IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society Board of Governors, 2011-2012.  

Some of his main research contributions include analysis of surface roughness at the Si/SiO2  interface, Monte Carlo simulation of ultrafast carrier relaxation in quantum confined systems, global modeling of high frequency and energy conversion devices, full-band simulation of semiconductor devices, transport in nanostructures, and fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices.  He has published over 400 journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceeding, and is a fellow of IEEE (2004) for contributions to carrier transport fundamentals and semiconductor devices.