Research Foundation Board Member Andrea Goldsmith
Dr. Andrea Goldsmith is the seventh president of Stony Brook University, SUNY’s research flagship and the No. 1 public university in New York State. Appointed in August 2025, she also oversees Stony Brook Medicine, co-chairs Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy and chairs the board of the New York Climate Exchange.
With more than three decades of experience in university leadership, teaching and research, Goldsmith served as dean of engineering and applied science at Princeton and spent 21 years on Stanford’s engineering faculty. Her research in wireless communications translated into new technologies and two successful start-up companies where she served as chief technology officer: Plume Wi-Fi and Quantenna Communications. She serves on the boards of Intel (INTC), Medtronic (MDT) and Crown Castle Inc. (CCI).
An inventor who holds 38 patents, her numerous awards include The Marconi Prize — the highest honor in telecommunications research — as the first woman to receive this recognition. She is the author of what is considered the foundational textbook used in wireless communications classes, Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press). In 2021, she was appointed by the White House to President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
She earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.