Biography
L. Rafael Reif received the degree of Ingeniero Electrico in 1973 from Universidad
de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1975 and 1979, respectively.
From 1973 to 1974 he was an Assistant Professor at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela. In 1978 he became a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. In 1980 Dr. Reif joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Department Head of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology. He was the Director of MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories for the period 1990-1999, and the Associate Department Head for Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for the period 1999-2004. He is presently working on three dimensional integrated circuit technologies, and on environmentally benign microelectronics fabrication.
Dr. Reif held the Analog Devices Career Development Professorship of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and was awarded the IBM Faculty Fellowship of MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering from 1980 to 1982. He received a United States Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984. Dr. Reif is a Fellow of the IEEE. His election carried the citation "For pioneering work in the low-temperature epitaxial growth of semiconductor thin films". Dr. Reif is also a recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s 2000 Aristotle Award. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Electrochemical Society, the American Physical Society, and IEEE.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
B.S., Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela, 1973
M.S., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1975
Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1979
