Martin A. Schmidt

Martin A. Schmidt, S.M., Ph.D., is Provost of MIT. A member of the MIT faculty since 1988, Provost Schmidt has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. From 1999 to 2006, he served as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT, and Associate Provost from 2008 to 2013. His teaching and research is in the areas of micro and nanofabrication of sensors, actuators and electronic devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), design of micromechanical sensors and actuators, and micro/nanofabrication technology. He is the co-author of more than 80 journal publications and 120 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He is also an inventor on more than 30 issued U.S. patents.