Andrea Goldsmith Named New Dean of Engineering

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Published May 4, 2020

Andrea Goldsmith, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University and co-founder of two wireless communication startups, will become Princeton’s dean of engineering Sept. 1. Goldsmith succeeds Emily Carter, who last fall became executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Los Angeles. Former engineering dean H. Vincent Poor *77 has been Princeton’s interim dean.

Goldsmith has been honored for her contributions to the fields of information theory and communications. She also has held leadership roles at Stanford, and she founded and directs a diversity and inclusion committee for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Published in the May 2020 Issue

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Paul Hertelendy ’53

4 Years Ago

Talented New Acquisition

I am hoping that PAW plans a worthy profile on its new dean of engineering, Dr. Andrea Goldsmith, who at an early age was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, where typically only about 10 percent of the nominees are elected per year.

I have known her since an earlier age in Berkeley, where I did my Ph.D. dissertation under her late dad (and, like me, an immigrant), Professor Werner Goldsmith. Before coming to Princeton, she was a professor at Stanford, well versed in state-of-the-art entrepreneurship.

Those of us who have followed her are great enthusiasts. Among her lesser credits are that she holds 29 patents! And she has a further benefit: Having both Stanford and Berkeley backgrounds, she can return from the annual Big Game and say, "We won," regardless of the outcome at the football stadium.

Best wishes and congrats on the new acquisition of a talented role model.