As a youngster, he lived in Pennsylvania (Lancaster and Reading) and south Florida (Miami, Boca Raton, and Deerfield Beach).
His doctoral thesis, "TANGO: A Framework and System for Algorithm Animation," is a highly cited project in the area of Software Visualization.
Stasko is an avid golfer and was winner of the 1996 Bobby Jones Memorial Tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
In 2007 Stasko was appointed Associate Chair of the newly created School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.
In addition to this role, he leads the Information Interfaces Research Group where he advises undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students.
Finally, Stasko was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the design, analysis, usage, and evaluation of software and information visualization".