Martin A. Schmidt

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Martin A. Schmidt
Born Martin Arnold Schmidt
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Website [<span%20class="url">.mit.edu schmidtresearchgroup.mit.edu%20schmidtresearchgroup<wbr/>.mit<wbr/>.edu]</span>]
Academic background
Education Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Thesis title Microsensors for the measurement of shear forces in turbulent boundary layers
Thesis url https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14781
Thesis year 1988
Doctoral advisor Stephen D. Senturia
Academic work
Notable students Albert Folch, Michael Huff

Martin Arnold Schmidt (born January 1960) is the 19th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[1][2] Prior to this role, Schmidt was Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2014 to 2022.[3]

Education

Schmidt earned his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and PhD from MIT in 1988.[4]

Career

In 1988, Schmidt became a faculty member of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. From 1999 to 2006, He was the director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT.[5] In 2016, he was named the Ray and Maria Stata Professor at MIT.[6] Schmidt became an associate provost at MIT from 2008 and assumed the role of provost in 2014.[7]

He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991.[8] He was named as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004 for contributions to design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems.[6]

His teaching and research work is in the field of micro- and nanofabrication technologies for sensors, actuators, and MEMS.[9] Schmidt has co-founded or co-invented the core technology of seven start-up companies.[3][10]

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Academic offices
Preceded by President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2022–present		 Incumbent

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