Martin Schmidt SM '83, PhD '88

Professor Schmidt became Provost of MIT in February of 2014, the Institute’s most senior academic and budget officer. He served as Associate Provost starting in 2008, managing the Institute’s space and the renovation/renewal budgets.
He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1998 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Schmidt has taught and conducted research in the areas of micro and nanofabrication of sensors, actuators and electronic devices, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), design of micromechanical sensors and actuators, and micro/nanofabrication technology. From 1999 to 2006, he served as the director of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), an interdepartmental laboratory that provides shared research infrastructure for all campus activities in micro and nanotechnology. He is currently co-chair of the board of directors at edX.
Professor Schmidt received his BS degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his SM and PhD degrees from MIT.