L. Rafael Reif is a professor of Electrical Engineering and the current Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reif previous served as the head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science between 2004 and 2005 and the director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories. Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of Vice-Chancellor at certain UK universites such as UCL, and the head of certain Oxbridge colleges (e. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

Reif received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela in 1973 and his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1979. He joined the MIT faculty in 1980 and now holds the Maseeh Professorship in Emerging Technology. Before his appointment as Provost, his research centered on three-dimensional integrated circuit technologies and on environmentally benign microelectronics fabrication. Valencia is the capital city of Carabobo State, Venezuela. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... 3-D or 3D abbreviates three dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ... Integrated circuit of Atmel Diopsis 740 System on Chip showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery Microchips with a transparent window, showing the integrated circuit inside. ...

Reif is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and the Electrochemical Society. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... The bent at Iowa Alpha (Iowa State University) Tau Beta Pi (ΤΒΠ or TBP) is the national engineering honor society in the United States and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the US. It honors students who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to...

Reif and his wife, Christine, live in Newton, Massachusetts and have a daughter, Jessica, and a son, Blake. Nickname: The Garden City Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1639 Incorporated 1688 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor David B. Cohen (Dem) Area  - City  18. ...

References

• Official Provost website
• "L. Rafael Reif named Provost", MIT News Office, July 12, 2005.