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the decision to stay in STEM. But she still
didn't have a field of interest.
Goldsmith's academic advisor was an
electrical engineer and statistician working
in communications. Goldsmith was
intrigued. She liked math, but wanted to
be able to apply it to engineering problems,
and he told her that communications
was a very mathematical area of engineering.
She began to gravitate toward
classes in communications, probability,
and statistics-all of the underpinnings
of wireless technology.
When she graduated in 1986, firstgeneration
cell phones were just starting
to roll out, and the first Wi-Fi standard
was more than a decade away. As a result,
there were no jobs working on commercial
wireless systems. Goldsmith took
a job at a small Silicon Valley defense
communications company where they
were building antenna array systems
and consulting for Lockheed on a satellite
system. The company was a small,
seat-of-the-pants operation staffed by
Ph.D.s and fresh-faced college graduates.
Goldsmith was suddenly a new hire with
a tremendous amount of responsibility,
tasked with coming up with the algorithms
for the antenna array. She had no
idea where to begin, so she headed to the
Stanford library to learn all she could.
There was no web browsing, or even the
web, at the time.
As Goldsmith worked with her new
team members, she became very interested
in the way the Ph.D.s talked about
and puzzled through problems. She
could see that they had a different way
of thinking, and she realized that even if
she loved wireless technology, and even
though she had basic knowledge and experience,
she lacked the deep technical
knowledge to build state-of-the-art communication
systems. As the communications
wireless industry began to get some
traction, she returned to Berkeley for her
master's degree. Goldsmith was so enamored
with doing research in the field
that she stayed on and received her Ph.D.
degree in 1994.
Goldsmith began her academic career
as assistant professor of electrical
engineering at the California Institute
of Technology, then moved to
Stanford as an assistant professor in
1999. She would go on to launch two
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