Theodore Rappaport
| Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport | |
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| Born |
November 26, 1960 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Wireless communications |
| Institutions |
New York University, The University of Texas at Austin, Virginia Tech |
| Alma mater | Purdue University |
| Doctoral advisor | Clare D. McGillem |
| Notable awards |
IEEE Donald G. Fink Award (2015) |
IEEE Donald G. Fink Award (2015)
IEEE Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award (2015)
Purdue University Distinguished Engineering Alumnus (2013)
IEEE William E. Sayle Award (2012)
IET Sir Monty Finniston Medal (2011)
ASEE Frederick E. Terman Outstanding Educator Award (2002)
IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper (1999)
Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport (born November 26, 1960) is an American electrical engineer in the field of wireless communications, the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU WIRELESS. He has written several textbooks, including Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice. He co-founded TSR Technologies, Inc. and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., and founded academic wireless research centers at Virginia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University. He has conducted ground-breaking research that has led the world to adopt millimeter wave frequencies for future fifth generation 5G wireless networks.
Ted Rappaport was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved around a lot as a child; he was a senior at Lincoln High School in Cambridge City, IN when his parents told him to leave because as Rappaport explained in an interview, "They would say I was rebellious, and I would say they were irrational." He lived out of his car, and also stayed with friends for several months while attending high school. He was awarded a college scholarship and went on to earn three degrees at Purdue University.
Rappaport first developed an affinity for radio at age 5 when he would visit his grandfather, and together they would spend hours "tuning around, listening to Morse code and ship-to-shore" on his grandfather's Philco antique shortwave radio. From those early beginnings, he developed a fascination for wireless and "loves to experiment with antennas". At age 14, he fractured his leg playing football which resulted in confinement to a body cast for six months. His grandmother gave him a shortwave radio which helped keep him occupied while his leg was healing. He acquired his ham radio license, and while in high school began teaching adults Morse code. It was through his ham radio activity that he met the families he lived with after being forced to leave his parent's home. He credits those families as "wonderful role models". After he graduated high school, Rappaport sold his car, boxed-up his belongings and hitchhiked to West Lafayette, Indiana to attend Purdue. His scholarship didn't cover all the bills so he worked side jobs, such as cleaning up garbage cans in the dorm, working at the campus radio station, and doing some co-op work for Magnavox.
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