Steven C. Rubinow

  • Associate Teaching Professor, Information Technology and Management, School of Computing

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Education

University of Illinois

Ph.D.  Chemistry                                                                                                                   

M.B.A. Marketing and Finance                                              

M.S. Chemistry                                                                                                                   

B.S. Biological Sciences and Chemistry 

 

DePaul University

M.F.A. Screenwriting

M.S. Computer Science

Awards

  • Big Data and Analytic Project of the Year, CIO of the Year finalist, Tampa Bay Business Journal, 2016
  • Top 30 socially-savvy CIOs in the US , Aternity, 2013.
  • CIO Hall of Fame, 2012 
  • Premier 100 IT Leaders, Computerworld, 2012. 
  • Top 10 CIOs on Wall Street, Securities Technology Monitor, 2010 
  • Top CIOs on Wall Street, Wall Street & Technology: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 
  • Top 100 IT projects, InfoWorld, 2009

Publications

Professional Activities

ADVISORY BOARDS

  • Business Performance Innovation Network
  • Enterprise Efficiency
  • Hitachi Data Systems
  • Morgenthaler Ventures / Canvas Venture Fund
  • NewVantage Partners
  • OnCorps
  • Sutter Hill Ventures
  • Voltaire
  • Wall Street & Technology
  • Wellio
  • XtremeData

 

VOLUNTEER BOARDS

  • American Friends of The Hebrew University
  • DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media
  • FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
  • Kellogg (Northwestern University) Technology Strategy Summit
  • Tampa Bay Technology Forum
  • University of Illinois College of Business Administration

Additional Info

IN THE MEDIA

The Model Context Protocol brings agents to life—along with risk By Anthony Malakian, waterstechnology, 17 July 2025

Media Appearances

Associate Teaching Professor Steve Rubinow Analyzes How AI Agents Go Rogue and What Banks Can Do About It

American Banker

“It’s kind of a paradox,” said Steve Rubinow, associate teaching professor of information technology and management and the former CIO of the New York Stock Exchange. “We want to give software agency, but we don’t want to give it too much agency, because too much agency could have unpredictable results. So the question is, how much agency should you give agentic AI, and it’s a really good question.”

Assistant Teaching Professor of ITM Steve Rubinow Discusses How the New York Stock Exchange Deploys Anthropic's Claude

American Banker

"Everybody's got to be experimenting," said Steve Rubinow, former chief information officer at the New York Stock Exchange and current associate teaching professor at Illinois Tech. "Nobody can afford to be a late adopter, it doesn't matter what industry you're in, because the technology is moving so quickly, and people see there's a competitive advantage or competitive necessity. The question is, what experiments do you choose? Where are you in the risk reward curve?"