Andrea Goldsmith (engineer)
Andrea Goldsmith | |
|---|---|
| 7th President of Stony Brook University | |
| Assumed office August 1, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Maurie McInnis Richard Levis McCormick (interim) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 4, 1964 |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Known for | Wireless communications |
| Awards | IEEE ComSoc Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award WICE Mentorship Award National Academy of Engineering member American Academy of Arts and Sciences member Marconi Prize (2020) |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University Princeton University California Institute of Technology Stanford University |
| Thesis | Design and Performance of High-Speed Communication Systems over Time-Varying Radio Channels (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Pravin Varaiya |
| Doctoral students | Mohamed-Slim Alouini |
| Website | engineering |
Andrea Goldsmith FREng (born July 4, 1964) is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator. She has served as the seventh president of Stony Brook University since August 2025.
Goldsmith was previously dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Before Princeton, she was the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. Her interests are in the design, analysis and fundamental performance limits of wireless systems and networks, and in the application of communication theory and signal processing to neuroscience. She also co-founded and served as chief technology officer of Plume Wi-Fi and Quantenna Communications. Since 2021, she has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).