Andrea J. Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith is the Stephen Harris professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She also founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and of Quantenna (QTNA), Inc.  Her work on adaptive wireless communications established a comprehensive theoretical underpinning for adaptive modulation and coding universally used in today's Wi-Fi and cellular standards. Her work in multi-user MIMO systems helped shape the adoption of these techniques in the 4G LTE cellular and the 802.11n/ac Wi-Fi standards. As CTO of Quantenna Communications, she led the development of the world's first 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi chip-set.

 Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford, and has received several awards for her work, including the IEEE Sumner Technical Field Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the IEEE Comsoc Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award, the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecture Award, the Women in Communications Engineering Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award. She is author of 3 books on wireless communications that have been translated into multiple languages, as well as an inventor on 29 patents. She has launched and led several multi-university research projects and has held multiple leadership roles in the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), most recently as founding chair of the IEEE TAB Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. At Stanford she has served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and on its 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.