Theodore Rappaport

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
Born (1960-11-26) 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)[1]
IEEE Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award (2015)[2]
Purdue University Distinguished Engineering Alumnus (2013)[3]
IEEE William E. Sayle Award (2012)[4]
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.[5] He has written several textbooks, including Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice.[6] He co-founded TSR Technologies, Inc.[7] and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc.,[8] [9] and founded academic wireless research centers at Virginia Tech,[10] the University of Texas at Austin,[11] and New York University.[12] He has conducted ground-breaking research that has led the world to adopt millimeter wave frequencies for future fifth generation 5G wireless networks. [13] [14]

Early life

Ted Rappaport was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved around a lot as a child; [15] he was a senior at Lincoln High School in Cambridge City, IN [16] 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."[15] 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.[15]

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.[17] From those early beginnings, he developed a fascination for wireless and "loves to experiment with antennas".[17] 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,[18] 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".[15] 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.[15]

Rappaport was among the first graduates of Purdue University's National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) where he co-authored the proposal that resulted in the National Science Foundation award presented to Purdue by President Ronald Reagan. Rappaport's master's thesis, which was used for the project, was on display and garnered some attention from President Reagan, who told Rappaport, "Nice job, son." It was at that point Rappaport knew he wanted to be an academic.[17] Rappaport met his wife Brenda during his sophomore year; she was an agricultural engineer also attending Purdue.[15][17] They married before his senior year at Purdue, and had three children together.[15]

Academic career

Rappaport graduated from Purdue University with a BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively.[17] He joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 1988 as an assistant professor and in 1990 founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), one of the world's first academic research centers for the fledgling wireless communications field.[15]

In 2002 Rappaport accepted the William and Bettye Nowlin professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).[19]

In 2012 he joined faculty at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering 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.[20]

A researcher and teacher of electrical and computer engineering, Rappaport specialized in wireless communications. He founded three academic wireless research centers at New York University (NYU WIRELESS), The University of Texas at Austin (WNCG), and Virginia Tech (MPRG).[5] He wrote one of the first widely used wireless communications textbooks[21][22] for academia and industry and has co-authored textbooks on simulation,[23] smart antennas,[24] and millimeter wave wireless communications.[25] He is a co-inventor on more than 100 US and International patents that have issued or are pending and has advised or launched high-tech companies in the wireless communications and computing fields, and two university spin-off companies.[26]

He has conducted research in wireless communications[27][28][29] and smart antennas,[30][31] and in the field of millimeter wave wireless communication networks and 5G wireless.[32] While on the faculty of Virginia Tech, Rappaport launched the Virginia Tech/MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications that was held on campus each summer. He received the Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Research in 1996,[33] and also founded two wireless companies with his students: TSR Technologies in 1989, and Wireless Valley Communications in 1995.[7] TSR Technologies invented some of the world's first software defined radio (SDR) products, including the Cellscope 2000.[34] In 2005, Rappaport along with other faculty at UT Austin received an IC2 Endowed Research Fellows appointment.[35]

Industrial career

Rappaport founded TSR Technologies, Inc. in 1989 which involved the manufacture of cellular radio/PCS software radios.[7] He sold the company in 1993 to Allen Telecom.[7] Rappaport and Roger Skidmore, a graduate student of MPRG, co-founded Wireless Valley Communications in 1995, an early developer of site-specific design and modeling products for the wireless local area network (WLAN) and indoor cellular/PCS that was sold to Motorola in December 2005.[36] [37] At UT Austin, Rappaport founded the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), and in 2011 received the Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC) award sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).[38][39] Rappaport also launched the Texas Wireless Summit[40] which became an annual fall event hosted by UT Austin’s wireless research program.

In 2012, he joined New York University and Polytechnic University prior to the merger of the two universities.[41][42] He founded NYU WIRELESS[12][43] one of the world’s first academic research centers to combine wireless engineering, computer science, and medicine. He launched the Brooklyn 5G Summit (B5GS) with co-sponsorship from Nokia[44] in 2013, an annual event held in April on the NYU-Poly Campus. His propagation measurements and channel modeling work for millimeter-wave wireless communications proved to the world that millimeter waves could be used for future mobile communication systems, and was cited in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Notice of Inquiry on the use of spectrum above 24 GHz for mobile communications (Spectrum Frontiers [45] [46] rulemaking proposal),[47] and was featured in the September 2014 issue of IEEE Spectrum.[48]

Professional Activities

Rappaport has served on the Technological Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission (TAC),[49] assisted the governor and CIO of Virginia in formulating rural broadband[50] initiatives for Internet access, testified before the US Congress[51] and conducted research for National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and other global telecommunications companies. His early work helped develop the first Wi-Fi standards [52] and characterized multipath channels in a wide range of factory buildings in the 1300  MHz band when most wireless communication operated at lower frequencies.[53] His research program at NYU WIRELESS worked on developing fundamental theories and techniques for characterizing, modeling, and using knowledge of wireless channels for future potential in millimeter wave wireless communication systems.[54]

In the 1990s, at the request of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Rappaport compiled several compendia of "selected readings" on various topics of wireless communications.[55] Rappaport served as a senior editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC),[56] and led in the creation of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.[57] In 2006 Rappaport served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc),[56] has served consecutive terms on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) beginning in 2008[58] and served on the board of directors for the Marconi Society from 2012-2015.[59]

He launched the Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies (CEET) Book Series with Pearson/Prentice-Hall in 1996, and serves as Series Editor. The series has over 20 books in the field of communications technology.[60]

Honors and awards

Books

References

  1. ↑ "Donald G. Fink Award". IEEE. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  2. 1 2 "Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award Winner Biographies | IEEE Communications Society". Comsoc.org. 1948-03-23. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  3. 1 2 "Theodore "Ted" S. Rappaport - Our People - Purdue Engineering". Engineering.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  4. 1 2 "IEEE William E. Sayle II Award for Achievement in Education". Ewh.ieee.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  5. 1 2 "Theodore S. Rappaport | NYU Tandon School of Engineering". Engineering.nyu.edu. 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  6. ↑ "Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition | Prentice Hall PTR". Authors.phptr.com. 2001-12-31. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Allen Group acquires TSR". Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  8. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/23/zander-wireless-valley-cx_df_1223autofacescan09.html
  9. ↑ "Theodore S. Rappaport". Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  10. ↑ "Pioneers in the Field of Wireless Technology, A Step Back In History". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  11. ↑ "Prof. Ted Rappaport Receives 2011 IET Sir Monty Finniston Award for Achievement in Engineering and Technology". WNCG. 2011-08-25. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  12. 1 2 "About Us". Nyu Wireless. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  13. ↑ http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/artificial-intelligence/theodore-rappaport-at-the-forefront-of-5g
  14. ↑ http://observer.com/2016/06/american-leadership-in-5g-must-be-a-national-priority-fcc-chair-says/
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lovegrove, Richard (1993). "Wireless Valley". Virginia Tech Magazine. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  16. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/33807340/
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 "Distinguished Engineering Alumni, Theodore "Ted" S. Rappaport". Purdue University. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  18. ↑ "Ted Rappaport, N9NB, Named Recipient of IEEE Education Award". American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  19. ↑ Partheymuller, Peter (September 2002). "Star Wars". The Alcalde. 91 (1): 56. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  20. ↑ "Wireless Engineering Pioneer Joins NYU-Poly and NYU". 2011-12-15. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  21. ↑ Reed, Jeffrey H. (2001-12-31). "Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition". InformIT. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  22. 1 2 Theodore S. Rappaport. "Pearson - Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice". Pearsonhighered.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  23. ↑ "Pearson - Principles of Communication Systems Simulation with Wireless Applications - William H. Tranter, K. Sam Shanmugan, Theodore S. Rappaport & Kurt L. Kosbar". Pearsonhighered.com. 2003-12-30. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  24. ↑ "Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: Is-95 and Third Generation Cdma Applications by Joseph Liberti — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  25. ↑ Diogenes, Yuri (2014-09-18). "Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications". InformIT. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  26. ↑ "IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY HONORS FOUNDER OF NYU WIRELESS RESEARCH CENTER FOR SEMINAL WORK". 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  27. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - Cross-layer design for wireless networks". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2003.1235598. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  28. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - 914 MHz path loss prediction models for indoor wireless communications in multifloored buildings". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/8.127405. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  29. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - Position location using wireless communications on highways of the future". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/35.544321. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  30. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - Overview of spatial channel models for antenna array communication systems". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/98.656151. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  31. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - Site-specific propagation prediction for wireless in-building personal communication system design". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/25.330150. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  32. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2013.2260813. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  33. ↑ "Spectrum - Volume 18 Issue 28 April 18, 1996 - ALUMNI AWARDS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE". Scholar.lib.vt.edu. 1996-04-18. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  34. ↑ "IEEE Xplore Abstract - Distributed real time signal processing for cellular and paging traffic analysis, fraud detection, a". Ieeexplore.ieee.org. doi:10.1109/VETEC.1993.510954. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  35. ↑ "IC2 Institute Fellow Wins Nobel Prize" (PDF). Repositories.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  36. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/23/zander-wireless-valley-cx_df_1223autofacescan09.html
  37. ↑ Trulove, Susan (2006). "Virginia Tech benefits from sale of Wireless Valley to Motorola". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  38. ↑ "Rappaport Gives Plenary at IEEE Global Communications Conference". WNCG. 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  39. ↑ "Engineering Wireless Researchers Awarded NSF Industry Collaboration Center - Cockrell School of Engineering". Engr.utexas.edu. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  40. ↑ "Texas Wireless Summit 2015". Texaswirelesssummit.com. 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  41. ↑ "Polytechnic and NYU Merger | NYU Tandon School of Engineering". Engineering.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  42. ↑ "Wireless Engineering Pioneer Joins NYU-Poly and NYU. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  43. ↑ Athavaley, Anjali (2012-08-07). "Wireless Center for NYU Poly - WSJ". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  44. ↑ Press RoomFacebookTwitterPrintDownload. "NSN, NYU WIRELESS Host First Brooklyn 5G Summit | NYU Tandon School of Engineering". Engineering.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  45. ↑ https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2016/03/spectrum-frontiers-workshop
  46. ↑ http://observer.com/2016/06/american-leadership-in-5g-must-be-a-national-priority-fcc-chair-says/
  47. ↑ "NOI to examine use of bands above 24 GHz for mobile broadband | Federal Communications Commission". Fcc.gov. 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  48. ↑ Rappaport, Theodore S. (2014-08-28). "Smart Antennas Could Open Up New Spectrum For 5G - IEEE Spectrum". Spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  49. ↑ "Rappaport appointed to Federal Communications Commission council - Cockrell School of Engineering". Engr.utexas.edu. 2003-07-09. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  50. ↑ "Mobile Work Exchange". Mobile Work Exchange. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  51. ↑ "House Report 106-567 - RADIO BROADCASTING PRESERVATION ACT OF 2000". Gpo.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  52. ↑ "Wi-Fi @ 25: A look back". EE Times. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  53. ↑ "Indoor Radio Communications for Factories of the Future" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  54. ↑ "NYU Wireless" (PDF). Nyuwireless.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.<
  55. ↑ Liberti, Joseph & Rappaport, Theodore S. (1999). Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: IS-95 and Third Generation CDMA Applications. Inside flap: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0137192878.
  56. 1 2 "Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award Winner Biographies". 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  57. ↑ "A Glimpse of the Future of Wireless Communications". 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  58. ↑ "Rappaport elected to IEEE Board of Governors of Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)". 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  59. ↑ "Home". Marconisociety.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  60. ↑ Nekoogar, Faranak. "Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series Series". InformIT. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  61. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "About-Dr. Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport". NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  62. ↑ "Wireless Communications Technical Committee". Bbcr.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  63. ↑ "Prof. Ted Rappaport Receives 2011 IET Sir Monty Finniston Award for Achievement in Engineering and Technology | UT ECE". Ece.utexas.edu. 2011-08-25. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  64. ↑ "About Us - Chapters - Distinguished Lecturer Program". Vtsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  65. ↑ "Pearson - Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, CourseSmart eTextbook - Theodore S. Rappaport, Robert W. Heath, Jr., Robert C. Daniels & James N. Murdock". Pearsonhighered.com. 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  66. ↑ Martin J. Feuerstein; Theodore S. Rappaport. Wireless Personal Communications (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science). Amazon.com. ISBN 9781461363859. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  67. ↑ Theodore S. Rappaport. "Pearson - Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice -". Pearsonhighered.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  68. ↑ "Wireless Communications". Dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  69. ↑ "Wireless Personal Communications - Emerging Technologies | William H. Tranter". Springer.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  70. ↑ "Wireless Personal Communications - Channel Modeling and | William H. Tranter". Springer.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  71. ↑ William H. Tranter; Brian D. Woerner; Jeffrey H. Reed; Theodore S. Rappaport; Max Robert. Wireless Personal Communications: Bluetooth and Other Technologies (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science). Amazon.com. ISBN 9780792372141. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  72. ↑ "Smart Antennas: Adaptive Arrays, Algorithms, & Wireless Position Location book by Theodore S Rappaport (Editor)". Alibris.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  73. ↑ "Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: IS-95 and Third Generation CDMA Applications [Book]". Safaribooksonline.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  74. ↑ "Wireless Personal Communications: Emerging Technologies for Enhanced Communications by William H. Tranter | 9781475772050 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble". Barnesandnoble.com. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/7/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.