Vice Provost for International Activities

Duane Boning is the vice provost for international activities, providing intellectual leadership, guidance, and oversight of the Institute’s international engagements and policies. As the Clarence J. LeBel Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), his research focuses on machine learning and statistical methods for modeling and control of variation in semiconductor and photonic manufacturing processes, devices, and circuits, with more than 300 journal and conference publications on these topics.

Prior to joining the faculty MIT in 1992, Boning worked at Texas Instruments from 1991 through 1992. He served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing from 2001 to 2011. He has held several leadership positions at the Institute, serving as associate department head of EECS from 2004 to 2011 and as associate chair of the MIT Faculty from 2019 to 2021. Among his previous leadership roles in international collaborations, Boning served as faculty lead of the MIT/Masdar Institute Cooperative Program and faculty lead of the MIT Skoltech initiative. He is currently the engineering faculty co-director for MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations Program and faculty co-director for the Machine Intelligence in Manufacturing and Operations effort. Boning is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to modeling and control in semiconductor manufacturing.

Boning earned his SB, SM, and PhD degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science.