Andrea Goldsmith (engineer)

This article is about the engineer. For the writer and novelist, see Andrea Goldsmith (writer).
Andrea Goldsmith
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forWireless communications
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Institutions
ThesisDesign and Performance of High-Speed Communication Systems over Time-Varying Radio Channels (1994)
Doctoral advisorPravin Varaiya
Doctoral studentsMohamed-Slim Alouini
Websiteengineering.stanford.edu/people/andrea-goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith (right) at the panel discussion after the August 2, 2019, screening of The Bit Player at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California

Andrea Goldsmith FREng [1] is an American electrical engineer and the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.[2][3][4] She is also the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton. She was previously the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University,[5] as well as a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.[6] 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.[7] She also co-founded and served as chief technology officer of Plume WiFi and Quantenna Communications. Since 2021, she has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).[8]

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  3. ^ "U. Appoints new Dean of Engineering School".
  4. ^ "Andrea Goldsmith Named New Dean of Engineering". 4 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Andrea Goldsmith". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  6. ^ Sarah Wishingrad, "Three Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Engineering," The Stanford Daily, March 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Kate Chesley, "American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 11 Stanford faculty members," Stanford News, April 12, 2017.
  8. ^ "President Biden Announces Members of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology". whitehouse.gov. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-03.