Steven Cundiff is an American experimental physicist and the Harrison M. Randall collegiate professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

[2] Cundiff's research interests broadly encompasses nonlinear light-matter interactions and advancing ultrafast optical technologies.

Initially MDCS was primarily applied to study of molecular systems, but the Cundiff research group pioneered its application to atomic vapors and semiconductor nanostructures.

[6] In interfacial quantum dots MDCS revealed induced inter-dot interactions mediated by excitation of delocalized well states, offering the possibility of another form of coherent control.

[8] In 1997, Cundiff joined the Quantum Physics division at NIST as a staff member as well as an Adjoint Assistant Professor of the University of Colorado, Boulder.