Andrea Goldsmith is the President of Stony Brook University. In addition she oversees Stony Brook Medicine and co-chairs Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. She also chairs the New York Climate Exchange, a historic partnership anchored by Stony Book University to build an international climate solutions center on Governors Island.

She was the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. She was previously the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering at Stanford. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and neuroscience. She founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and of Quantenna (QTNA), Inc, and served on the Board of Directors for Intel, Medtronic and Crown Castle Inc.

Prof. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE, and has received several awards for her work, including the IEEE Sumner Technical Field Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the ComSoc Armstrong Technical Achievement Award, the Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the WICE Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award.

Prof. Goldsmith served on the US President’s PCAST, as the founding Chair of the IEEE Board of Directors Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics, as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and on the Board of Governors for both the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies. At Stanford she served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate, on Academic Council Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Planning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, Faculty Women’s Forum Steering Committee, and Task Force on Women and Leadership.