Theodore S. Rappaport

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU WIRELESS, which brings together engineering, computer science, and medicine. He also holds appointments in NYU’s Courant Computer Science Department and the Department of Radiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Rappaport’s work has launched and shaped nearly every generation of modern wireless communications, nationally and internationally, from the early technical foundations behind Wi-Fi and digital cellular service to the millimeter-wave research that underpins 5G and the spectrum studies now guiding 6G.

He is the author or co-author of more than 400 papers and 20 books, including the most widely cited textbooks on wireless communications, smart antennas, communication systems simulation, and millimeter-wave communications. He has advised and launched numerous high-tech companies in the wireless communications and computing fields,

Rappaport has been recognized for his expertise in both electrical engineering and computer science having been named a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and he was the first career academic inducted into the Wireless History Foundation Wireless Hall of Fame.

He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University.