Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Design School, Steinberg's research focuses on strategic design development within the industrial design/architecture disciplinary boundaries. His current focus is on developing approaches to improving outcomes in stroke treatment within the healthcare industry. Efforts also include innovative organizational approaches to complex problem-solving and improved competitiveness through design. He has received numerous grants to fund his research, and currently heads the Product Development in Architecture concentration within the school’s Master of Design Studies program. His current courses is: From Industrial to Strategic Design: The Changing Value of Design, while previous courses have included: Design Research in Product Design, Product Design: Industrial Design, Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture, Introduction to Building Technology, and Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing.

He is also principal of Helsinki based NB architecture, a design practice providing architecture and product-oriented research and strategic design services. Current projects include the development of new product and technology solutions for Italian lighting manufacturer iGuzzini, and the architectural and product solution for a 300’ multimedia wall at the new international arrivals hall at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport.

Steinberg is a member of Italy’s Lombardy region’s “Meta-district” committee, advising government on new funding policies to promote industry’s competitiveness through design research. He has lectured extensively on design & research and its relationship to industry and government strategies.

Featured in “40 under 40 Finland” his books include "Prototype for a Plywood Wheelchair”, "Material Legacies: Bamboo", he is co-author of “Digital Design and Manufacturing”, “Patient Transport Module: Stroke PTM feasibility study”, and contributor to numerous other books and publications. He is the he co-organizer of "New Technologies in Architecture" a design conference series on the impact of CAD/CAM processes on the profession, at Harvard.

A member of the Finnish Association of Architects, he received his BFA and BArch from Rhode Island School of Design and his MArch with Distinction from the Harvard Design School.