Dr. Andrea Goldsmith

Board Chair
Stony Brook University
President

Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, and a distinguished re-searcher, educator and entrepreneur, has been named the seventh president of Stony Brook University.

Dr. Goldsmith’s appointment was announced by SUNY Board of Trustees Chair Merryl H. Tisch and SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr., following a unanimous vote. Her appointment is effective August 1, 2025

Dr. Goldsmith is the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton. She was previously the Ste-phen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she is now Harris Professor Emerita.

 Her research interests are in communications, control, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and biomedical devices. She founded and served as chief technical officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and of Quantenna, Inc., and she serves on the board of directors for Intel, Medtronic, Crown Castle Inc., and the Marconi Society. She also served on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 2021 through 2025. Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received several awards for her work, including induction into the Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Dresselhaus Medal, the IEEE Education Medal, the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award, the WICE Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award.

She is author of the book Wireless Communications and co-author of MIMO Wireless Communications, Principles of Cognitive Radio, and Machine Learning and Wireless Communications, as well as an in-ventor on 38 patents. She received a BS in engineering math as well as MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley. 

Dr. Goldsmith was the founding chair of the IEEE Board of Directors Committee on Diversity and Inclu-sion. She served as president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, as founding chair of its student committee, and as founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. She has also served on the board of governors for both the IEEE Information Theory and Communica-tions Societies. At Stanford, she served as chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and for multiple terms as a senator, and on its Academic Council Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Plan-ning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, and Task Force on Women and Leadership.