Theodore S. Rappaport, PhD

Prof. Ted Rappaport is founder and center director of NYU WIRELESS (www.nyuwireless.org), a first-of-its-kind multidisciplinary research center that involves faculty and student researchers from the NYU's Langone Medical Center, NYU's Courant Institute, and NYU-Poly's electrical and computer engineering department. NYU WIRELESS is creating next generation mass-deployable communications and sensing devices and systems across a wide range of applications. Rappaport's past two centers at Virginia Tech (wireless.vt.edu) and The University of Texas at Austin (www.wncg.org) have produced hundreds of MS and Ph.D engineers who are employed by, and in many cases leading, the wireless communications industry.

NYU WIRELESS involves more than 20 faculty members and 100 graduate students. Rappaport's invidual research is in the areas of broadband wireless communications, antennas and propagation, signal processing and RF circuits and electronics for radiology and medical imaging, and wireless devices and sensors for surgery, diagnostics, and e-health applications. His research is pursuing advances in high-performance radiology, millimeter-wave RF communications and imaging, wireless cable replacement for surgical and display systems, high-performance biomedical imaging, bio-sensing, and wireless point-of-care (PoC) diagnostics.