Andrea Goldsmith is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford 
University, and was previously an assistant professor of Electrical  
Engineering at Caltech. She has also held industry positions at Maxim 
Technologies and at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She is currently on leave 
from Stanford as co-founder and CTO of Quantenna Communications, Inc.
(www.quantenna.com). Her research includes work on capacity of wireless  
channels and networks, wireless communication and information theory, 
MIMO and energy-constrained wireless systems, wireless communications 
for distributed control, and cross-layer design of wireless networks. 
She is author of the book "Wireless Communications'' and co-author of the 
book "MIMO Wireless Communications'', both published by Cambridge University 
Press. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from U.C. Berkeley. 

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Dr. Goldsmith is a Fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford. She has received 
serveral awards for her research, including the National Academy of
Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the  
Stanford Terman Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER 
CAREER Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young 
Investigator Award. She was also a co-recipient of the 2005 IEEE
Communications Society and Information Theory Society joint paper
award. She currently serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions  
on Information Theory and as editor for the Journal on Foundations and  
Trends in Communications and Information Theory and in Networks. She 
She was previously an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications 
and for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, and has served as guest
editor for several IEEE journal and magazine special issues. Dr. Goldsmith
is active in committees and conference organization for the IEEE Information
Theory and Communications Societies and is an elected member of the Board of
Governors for both societies. She is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE
Communications Society, the second vice-president and student committee founder
of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and the technical program co-chair  
for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.