Andrea Goldsmith

Dr. Andrea GoldsmithAndrea Goldsmith, dean of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to serve as the next president of Stony Brook University, effective Aug. 1, 2025.

Goldsmith, the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been dean of engineering since September 2020 when she came to Princeton from Stanford University. As dean she led a period of major growth, increasing the size of the faculty by 29% to 189; Ph.D. enrollment by 31% to 849; undergraduate enrollment by 22% to 1,829; and annual sponsored research expenditures by 24% to $90 million.

She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.