Andrea Goldsmith is the President of Stony Brook University, having previously held positions as Dean and Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, and as the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She is a former President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory (J-SAIT), a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE.