Andrea Goldsmith (engineer)

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|nationality = American

|field = Electrical engineering

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|alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley

|thesis_title = Design and Performance of High-Speed Communication Systems over Time-Varying Radio Channels

|thesis_url = https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/ERL-94-75.pdf

|thesis_year = 1994

|doctoral_advisor = Pravin Varaiya

|doctoral_students= Mohamed-Slim Alouini

|website = {{URL|https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/andrea-goldsmith }}

|known_for = Wireless communications

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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)}}

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Andrea Goldsmith {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FREng}}{{cite web |title=New Fellows 2022 |url=https://raeng.org.uk/new-fellows-2022 |access-date=21 September 2022}} is an American electrical engineer and the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/04/15/andrea-goldsmith-entrepreneur-and-leader-wireless-communications-appointed|title = Andrea Goldsmith, entrepreneur and leader in wireless communications, appointed Princeton University dean of engineering}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/04/appoints-new-dean-of-engineering-school-princeton|title=U. Appoints new Dean of Engineering School}}{{Cite web|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/andrea-goldsmith-named-new-dean-engineering|title = Andrea Goldsmith Named New Dean of Engineering|date = 4 May 2020}} She is also the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton. In February 2025, Goldsmith was announced as the president elect at Stony Brook University, a position she will assume on August 1, 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/andrea-goldsmith-named-seventh-president-of-stony-brook-university/|title = Andrea Goldsmith Named Seventh President of Stony Brook University}}

Goldsmith was previously the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University,{{Cite web |url=http://wsl.stanford.edu/~andrea/ |title=Andrea Goldsmith |publisher=stanford.edu |accessdate=November 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430211012/http://wsl.stanford.edu/~andrea/ |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |url-status=dead }} as well as a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.Sarah Wishingrad, [https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/03/06/three-stanford-professors-elected-to-national-academy-of-engineering/ "Three Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Engineering,"] The Stanford Daily, March 6, 2017. 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.Kate Chesley, [https://news.stanford.edu/2017/04/12/american-academy-arts-sciences-elects-11-stanford-faculty-members/ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 11 Stanford faculty members,"] Stanford News, April 12, 2017. 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).{{cite web|title=President Biden Announces Members of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/22/president-biden-announces-members-of-presidents-council-of-advisors-on-science-and-technology/|website=White House|date=22 September 2021 |access-date=2022-08-03}}

Early life and education

Goldsmith was raised in the San Fernando Valley, California.Kathleen J. Sullivan, [https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october19/goldsmith-faculty-senate-102209.html "Wireless communications expert takes the helm of the Faculty Senate,"] Stanford News, October 22, 2009. Her father Werner Goldsmith was a professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, and her mother Adrienne Goldsmith was an animator for cartoon shows, including The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.Jim Herron Zamora, [https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Werner-Goldsmith-expert-on-head-injuries-2558849.php "Werner Goldsmith – expert on head injuries,"] San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 2003.Abra Cohen, [https://www.jweekly.com/2014/03/07/talking-with-a-wizard-in-the-field-of-wireless/ "Talking with a wizard in the field of wireless,"] J Weekly, March 7, 2014. Goldsmith earned her bachelor's degree in engineering math from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986, and her MS and PhD in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1991 and 1994, respectively. In the years between obtaining her bachelor's and PhD, she spent four years as a systems engineer at a Silicon Valley defense communications startup.

Work and academic career

Goldsmith started her academic career at the California Institute of Technology and was there for four years. She joined Stanford in 1999, becoming an associate professor in 2002 and a full professor in 2007. At Stanford, she served as chair of the faculty senate, and on the school's task force on women and leadership. In 2006, she took a leave of absence from Stanford and co-founded Quantenna Communications, a company that produces silicon chipsets designed for high-speed, wireless high-definition video home networking. She served as chief technology officer of the startup until returning to Stanford in 2008. She was also a founder and CTO of Plume Wi-Fi, which was founded in 2014 and develops Wi-Fi technology. She joined Princeton in 2020 as dean of Engineering and Applied Science at a pivotal time, when it is expected to grow its engineering faculty by 50%; build a new neighborhood with new buildings for all engineering departments and interdisciplinary institutes; and foster significantly more innovation, entrepreneurship, and partnerships with industry.

As an inventor and consultant, she has secured 38 patents.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-20 |title=Stony Brook University's new president will be Andrea Goldsmith of Princeton University |url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/stony-brook-university-president-andrea-goldsmith-n2wvigfs |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Newsday |language=en}} She has authored and co-authored several books, including Wireless Communication, MIMO Wireless Communications and Principles of Cognitive Radio. She has launched and led several multi-university research projects, including DARPA's ITMANET program,[http://ccc.centers.ufl.edu/?q=node/21 ITMANET], Cognition & Control in Complex Systems, 2011. and she is a principal investigator in the National Science Foundation Center on the Science of Information.[https://soihub.org/about/participants/faculty/andrea-goldsmith/ Andrea Goldsmith], Center for Science of Information, September 8, 2015.

In the IEEE, Goldsmith served on the board of governors for both the Information Theory and Communications societies. She has also been a distinguished lecturer for both societies, served as president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, founded and chaired the Student Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and chaired the Emerging Technology Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. She chairs the IEEE Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.[http://www.itsoc.org/portal_memberdata/andrea Andrea Goldsmith], IEEE Information Theory Society. Accessed May 2, 2018.Vicky Stein, [https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2017/10/30/andrea-goldsmith-wins-award-for-mentoring-women-in-engineering/ "Andrea Goldsmith wins award for mentoring women in engineering,"] Stanford News, October 30, 2017.

She won the 2017 Women in Communications Engineering Mentorship Award from the IEEE Communications Society for her efforts in encouraging women in the fields of technology and engineering. In 2017, she was elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and also to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to adaptive and multiantenna wireless communications. Goldsmith won the 2020 Marconi Prize, generally recognized as the top prize in communications.{{Cite web |last=Society |first=Marconi |date=2020-04-30 |title=Shattering the Silicon Ceiling: 2020 Marconi Prize Awarded to Wireless Innovator Dr. Andrea Goldsmith |url=https://www.marconisociety.org/press/shattering-the-silicon-ceiling-2020-marconi-prize-awarded-to-wireless-innovator-dr-andrea-goldsmith/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=The Marconi Society |language=en-US}}

Awards

IEEE fellow for contributions to the development of adaptive techniques and the analysis of fundamental capacity limits for wireless communication systems in the year 2005.

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url=https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-fellows/2005|

title = IEEE Fellows 2005 | IEEE Communications Society}}

National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecture Award, 2002[https://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects/31202.aspx Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers - Gilbreth Lectures], NAE. Accessed May 2, 2018.
Silicon Valley Business Journal Women of Influence Award, 2010[https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/promo/svbjwomenofinfluence/WOIAlumnae2010 "2010 Women of Influence,"] Silicon Valley Business Journal, 2010.
IEEE Communications Society Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award, 2014[https://www.comsoc.org/about/memberprograms/comsoc-awards/armstrong "IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award,"] IEEE ComSoc. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2017–present
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017–present
Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Mentorship Award, 2017
ACM Athena Lecturer Award, 2018[https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/goldsmith_5482565#166 ACM Athena Lecturer Award, USA], Association for Computing Machinery, 2018.
Marconi Prize, 2020[https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/01/marconi-prize-honors-andrea-goldsmith-pioneer-wireless-communications Marconi Prize 2020]

Publications

=Books and book chapters=

Entropy, Mutual Information, and Capacity for Markov Channels with General Inputs, T. Holliday, A. Goldsmith, P. Glynn, Stanford University Press, 2002
EE359 Wireless Communications, A. Goldsmith, Stanford University Press, 2002
Wireless Communications, A. Goldsmith, Cambridge University Press, 2005
MIMO Wireless Communications, E. Biglieri, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Principles of Cognitive Radio, A. Goldsmith, L. Greenstein, N. Mandayam, H.V. Poor, Cambridge University Press, 2012

Personal life

Goldsmith lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband, scientist Arturo Salz, and their children.

External links

[https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2018/andrea-goldsmith People of ACM].
[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cPmMoXoAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar, Andrea Goldsmith]
[https://profiles.stanford.edu/andrea-goldsmith Andrea Goldsmith Profile at Stanford University]