Andrea Goldsmith is the seventh president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She was appointed as president in February of 2025 and officially assumed the role in August 2025. She also oversees Stony Brook Medicine, Long Island’s premier academic healthcare system; 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 over three decades of academic leadership experience, teaching and research, Goldsmith has consistently driven transformational impact and excellence. Her research interests are in information, communication and control theories and signal processing and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems and neuroscience.

An inventor who holds 38 patents - all in wireless technology - she has authored what is considered the foundational textbook used globally in wireless communications classes, Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press), and she has recently completed work on its second edition. She is the co-author of the books MIMO Wireless Communications, Principles of Cognitive Radio, and Machine Learning and Wireless Communications, all published by Cambridge University Press. 

Dr. Goldsmith has served as the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on government research grants totaling more than $70 million. Her research has been supported by numerous government agencies including the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, the Army Research Labs and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. She has also obtained more than $2 million of research support from industry, including funding from Agilent, Bosch, Cable Labs, Hitachi, Huawei, Intel, LG Electronics, National Semiconductor, NTT, Samsung and Toyota.

Dr. Goldsmith has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including induction into the Wireless History Foundation’s Wireless Hall of Fame, the National Inventors Hall of Fame®, and the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. She is also a recipient of the IEEE Dresselhaus Medal, which recognizes her outstanding technical contributions to and leadership in wireless communications theory and practice. In 2020, Dr. Goldsmith received The Marconi Prize — the highest honor in telecommunications research — as the first woman to receive this recognition. In 2021, she was appointed by the White House to President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to advise the president on matters related to science, technology innovation, sustainability and public policy. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.