Theodore Rappaport

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Full Name	Theodore Rappaport
Occupation	Scientist
Date Of Birth	Nov 26, 1960(1960-11-26)
Age	64
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Scorpio

Theodore Rappaport Biography

Theodore Rappaport is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on November 26, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport (born on the 26th of November 1960 Brooklyn, New York) is an American electrical engineer. He is also the David Lee/ErnstWeber professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the founding director for NYU Wireless. He was made to be a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the year 2018. He has written numerous books which include Wireless Communications: Principles and Application. He was co-founder of TSR Technologies, Inc. and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc. and also founded research centers for academic wireless in Virginia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University. His 2013 research paper, Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular This is the way to go! is regarded as the fundamental paper of Millimeter Wave 5G. The book, Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications was released in 2014. He was inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame in 2019.

When he was on faculty at Virginia Tech, Rappaport launched the Virginia Tech/MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications that was hosted on campus every summer. He was awarded the Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Research Excellence in 1996. TSR Technologies invented some of the first software defined radio (SDR) products, such as Cellscope 2000. Cellscope 2000. The year 2005 was the time that Rappaport together with faculty from UT Austin received an IC2 Endowed Research Fellows appointment.

Rappaport served as a senior editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and led in the creation of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. In 2006 he served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), has served consecutive terms on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) beginning in 2008 and served on the board of directors for the Marconi Society from 2012-2015.

In 2012, he joined New York University and Polytechnic University prior to the merger of the two universities to lead their wireless communications engineering and research initiatives as the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chair of Electrical Engineering while also holding professorships at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and NYU School of Medicine. He founded NYU Wireless one of the world’s first academic research centers to combine wireless engineering, computer science, and medicine.

Rappaport launched the Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies (CEET) Book Series with Pearson/Prentice-Hall in 1996, and serves as Series Editor. The series contains more than 20 books on the subject of communication technology.

Theodore Rappaport Net Worth

Theodore Rappaport is one of the richest Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Theodore Rappaport 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rappaport has graduated from Purdue University with a BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering in 1982, 1984 and 1987 in the years 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. The professor joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in 1988 as an assistant professor. He also in 1990, he established his own organization, the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) that is one of the first research centers of academic excellence in the burgeoning field of wireless communications.

At Virginia Tech, Rappaport founded two wireless businesses with the help of his fellow students. TSR Technologies in 1989 in 1995, and Wireless Valley Communications in 1995. TSR Technologies was engaged in the manufacturing of cellular radio/PCS software radios. The company was sold at the end of 1993 to Allen Telecom. Along with Roger Skidmore, a graduate student at MPRG the company, he founded Wireless Valley Communications in 1995 The company was the first to develop models and design products that were specifically designed for sites that were designed for wireless local area networks (WLAN) and PCS for indoor use. The company was acquired by Motorola at the end of December. In 2005, at UT Austin, Rappaport founded the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and in 2011, he was awarded the Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC) award, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Rappaport also initiated The Texas Wireless Summit which became an annual event held in the fall by the UT Austin wireless program for research.

In 2002 Rappaport accepted the William and Bettye Nowlin professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).

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