Andrea J Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the field of wireless communications whose discoveries have influenced cellular and WiFi networks all over the world: from powering the latest generations of high-speed wireless, to enabling smart home appliances, to preventing cell phone calls from dropping when we walk or drive down the street. She is the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, and was the first woman to win the Marconi Prize, the highest honor in telecommunications research. She also founded and was chief technical officer of Plume WiFi (rormerly Accelera Inc.) and of Quantena Inc. which went public in 2016. Prior to Stanford, she held positions at Caltech, Macim Technologies, Memorylink Corp. and AT&T Bell Laboratories.