Andrea Goldsmith (engineer)

Goldsmith was raised in the San Fernando Valley, California. 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. 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. She has authored and co-authored several books, including Wireless Communication, MIMO Wireless Communications and Principles of Cognitive Radio. and she is a principal investigator in the National Science Foundation Center on the Science of Information. 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. 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. She was also invested Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Málaga (Spain) in 2024. In August of 2025, Goldsmith was appointed to become the seventh president of Stonybrook University. ==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. • National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecture Award, 2002 • Silicon Valley Business Journal Women of Influence Award, 2010 • IEEE Communications Society Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award, 2014 • Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2017–present • 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 Old Field, New York, with her husband, scientist Arturo Salz. ==References==