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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
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2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
103
Citations
94639
World Ranking
154
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award “For contributions to the fundamental understanding and innovation in adaptive and multiple antenna techniques for wireless communication networks.”
  • 2018 - ACM Athena Lecturer Award For contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive wireless communications and sustained translation of theoretic results into commercial technologies and industry standards.
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to adaptive and multiantenna wireless communications.
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the development of adaptive techniques and the analysis of fundamental capacity limits for wireless communication systems.

Overview

Andrea Goldsmith is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms
  • Error Correcting Code Techniques
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

Andrea Goldsmith's publication record includes papers in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Some recent papers authored by Goldsmith include:

  • "Characterizing Trust and Resilience in Distributed Consensus for Cyberphysical Systems," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "Threshold-Based Fast Successive-Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "Semi-Decentralized Federated Learning with Collaborative Relaying," 2022, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • "Construction of Polar Codes With Reinforcement Learning," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "Alternative Formulations for the Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • H. Vincent Poor
  • Yonina C. Eldar
  • Denız Gündüz
  • Michal Yemini
  • Rajarshi Saha

Among honors received, Andrea Goldsmith was awarded the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award in 2019 for contributions related to adaptive and multiple antenna techniques for wireless communication networks. In 2018, they received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award for work in adaptive wireless communications and the translation of theoretical results into commercial technologies. Other distinctions include election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, membership in the National Academy of Engineering the same year, and IEEE Fellowship awarded in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Wireless Communications

    Andrea Goldsmith

  • Capacity limits of MIMO channels

    A. Goldsmith;S.A. Jafar;N. Jindal;S. Vishwanath

  • Breaking Spectrum Gridlock With Cognitive Radios: An Information Theoretic Perspective

    A. Goldsmith;S.A. Jafar;I. Maric;S. Srinivasa

  • Capacity of fading channels with channel side information

    A.J. Goldsmith;P.P. Varaiya

  • On the optimality of multiantenna broadcast scheduling using zero-forcing beamforming

    Taesang Yoo;A. Goldsmith

  • Variable-rate variable-power MQAM for fading channels

    A.J. Goldsmith;Soon-Ghee Chua

  • Energy-efficiency of MIMO and cooperative MIMO techniques in sensor networks

    Shuguang Cui;A.J. Goldsmith;A. Bahai

  • Duality, achievable rates, and sum-rate capacity of Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels

    S. Vishwanath;N. Jindal;A. Goldsmith

  • Energy-constrained modulation optimization

    Shuguang Cui;A.J. Goldsmith;A. Bahai

  • Degrees of freedom in adaptive modulation: a unified view

    Seong Taek Chung;A.J. Goldsmith

  • Design challenges for energy-constrained ad hoc wireless networks

    A.J. Goldsmith;S.B. Wicker

  • Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation

    R. Hadani;S. Rakib;M. Tsatsanis;A. Monk

  • MIMO Wireless Communications

    Ezio Biglieri;Robert Calderbank;Anthony Constantinides;Andrea Goldsmith

  • Adaptive coded modulation for fading channels

    A.J. Goldsmith;S.-G. Chua

  • Capacity of Rayleigh fading channels under different adaptive transmission and diversity-combining techniques

    M.-S. Alouini;A.J. Goldsmith

  • Adaptive Modulation over Nakagami Fading Channels

    Mohamed-Slim Alouini;Andrea J. Goldsmith

  • Multi-Antenna Downlink Channels with Limited Feedback and User Selection

    Taesang Yoo;N. Jindal;A. Goldsmith

  • Capacity regions for wireless ad hoc networks

    S. Toumpis;A.J. Goldsmith

  • Capacity and power allocation for fading MIMO channels with channel estimation error

    Taesang Yoo;A. Goldsmith

  • Sum power iterative water-filling for multi-antenna Gaussian broadcast channels

    N. Jindal;Wonjong Rhee;S. Vishwanath;S.A. Jafar

  • A unified approach for calculating error rates of linearly modulated signals over generalized fading channels

    M.-S. Alouini;A.J. Goldsmith

Frequent Co-Authors

Yonina C. Eldar
Yonina C. Eldar Weizmann Institute of Science
H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor Princeton University
Deniz Gunduz
Deniz Gunduz Imperial College London
Shuguang Cui
Shuguang Cui Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Syed A. Jafar
Syed A. Jafar University of California, Irvine
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Mohamed-Slim Alouini King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Nihar Jindal
Nihar Jindal Google (United States)
Shlomo Shamai
Shlomo Shamai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Michelle Effros
Michelle Effros California Institute of Technology

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