Theodore “Ted” Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor at New York University (NYU) and is on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of NYU, the Courant Computer Science Department, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of NYU WIRELESS. Earlier in his career Ted founded major wireless academic research centers at Virginia Tech and The University of Texas at Austin.
In 1987, Ted’s Ph.D. at Purdue University provided the basis to create the first Wi-Fi standard, and his work led to the first US digital cellphone standards, TDMA and CDMA. Ted and his students engineered the world’s first public Wi-Fi hotspots, and his work proved the viability of millimeter waves for mobile communications. The global wireless industry adopted his vision for 5G networks. Ted has produced textbooks on the topics of wireless communications, adaptive antennas, simulation, and millimeter wave communications which are used in hundreds of universities across the world and are translated in eight languages.
Ted is co-founder, Chairman and CTO of TSR Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications, and was technical advisor to Straight Path Communications, a millimeter wave spectrum company that was sold to Verizon in 2017. He has advised many global wireless companies, has more than 100 patents, and has served on several advisory councils. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Radio Club of America, and the National Academy of Inventors. Ted has received numerous awards in his career, including several from the IEEE and the Radio Club of America.
As a survivor of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and a stem cell transplant recipient in 2015, Ted worked with his doctors on a protocol, the knowledge from which is being used globally to improve survivability of patients post-transplant.
Theodore Rappaport’s 2019 Induction Video