Martin Arnold Schmidt (born January 1960) is the 19th

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. Prior to this role, Schmidt was Provost at the

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(MIT) from 2014 to 2022.

Education

Schmidt earned his BS from

in 1981 and

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from MIT in 1988.

Career

In 1988, Schmidt became a faculty member of the

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. From 1999 to 2006, He was the director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. In 2016, he was named the Ray and Maria Stata Professor at MIT. Schmidt became an associate provost at MIT from 2008 and assumed the role of provost in 2014. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He was named as a fellow of the

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(IEEE) in 2004 for contributions to design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems. His teaching and research work is in the field of micro- and nanofabrication technologies for sensors, actuators, and

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. Schmidt has co-founded or co-invented the core technology of seven start-up companies.

References

External links

MIT group website
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