Rappaport, Theodore

Biography:

Ted Rappaport is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is the founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at the university’s Austin campus, a center he founded in 2002. From 1988 to 2002, he was on the electrical and computer engineering faculty of Virginia Tech, where he founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), one of the world’s first university research and teaching centers dedicated to the wireless communications field. In 1989, he founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS software radio manufacturer that he sold in 1993. In 1995, he founded Wireless Valley Communications Inc., a pioneering creator of site-specific radio propagation software for network design and management that was acquired by Motorola, Inc. in 2005. Rappaport received the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1990, an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, the Sarnoff Citation from the Radio Club of America in 2000, the Fredrick E. Terman Outstanding Electrical Engineering Faculty Award from the ASEE in 2002 and the Stuart F. Meyer Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2005. Rappaport has over 100 U.S. or international patents issued or pending and has authored, co-authored and co-edited 18 books in the wireless field, including Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice, Principles of Communication Systems Simulation with Wireless Applications and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: IS-95 and Third Generation CDMA Applications. In 1999, his work on site-specific propagation received the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award. Dr. Rappaport is one of the most highly cited authors in the wireless field, according to ISI Highly Cited and has published over 200 technical papers. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic and technical journals, is a fellow of the IEEE and is active in the IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology societies. He is a highly sought after technical expert, having consulted for over 25 multinational corporations and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). He currently serves on the technical advisory boards of iTaggit, Inc., Motion Computing, Inc., Alereon, Inc., Paratek Microwave, Inc., and the Federal Communications Commission. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982, 1984 and 1987, respectively.