Rappaport, Theodore S., 1960-

Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport (born November 26, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American electrical engineer and 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 and Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications (2014). In the private sector he co-founded TSR Technologies, Inc. and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc. In the academic setting he founded academic wireless research centers at Virginia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University. His 2013 paper, "Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!" has been called a founding document of 5G millimeter wave. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018, and to the Wireless Hall of Fame in 2019. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for contributions to the characterization of radio frequency propagation in millimeter wave bands for cellular communication networks.