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Andrea Goldsmith is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University with 25 years of experience in the wireless industry. Prior to joining Stanford in 1999, she was an Assistant Professor at Caltech.
Her research focuses on state-of-the-art wireless system design. She has published widely on this topic, including three textbooks, and is the recipient of several awards and honors for her research, including IEEE Fellow. Prior to founding Accelera Mobile Broadband, she founded and served as CTO for Quantenna Communications, Inc., a developer of silicon for high-speed 802.11n multimedia home networks.
She also served as Chief Scientist at Memorylink Corporation, a developer of broadband wireless backhaul solutions, and has held other industry positions at Maxim Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. She currently serves on the technical advisory boards of Sequans Communications (NYSE: SQNS); Interdigital (NASDAQ: IDCC); and Aviat Networks (NASDAQ: AVNW).
Dr. Goldsmith received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.