BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Stephen S. Rappaport (IEEE M'65-SM'76-F'87) received the B.E.E. degree from the Cooper Union, New York City, in 1960; the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1962; and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New York University, New York City, in 1965. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Leading Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and  an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Rappaport has numerous technical publications on communications systems and techniques, multiple access, cellular and non-cellular mobile radio networks and systems, queuing, communications traffic, and spread spectrum. His research has received substantial funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He holds two patents on channel borrowing schemes for cellular communications. In 1995 he received the MOUNTBATTEN PREMIUM from the Institution of Electrical Engineers, (UK), for his paper, "Blocking, hand-off and traffic performance for cellular communication systems with mixed platforms." He has been on the Editorial Board of IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the Wireless Networks Journal. He was Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for a special issue on Portable and Mobile Communications and Guest Editor of WINET for a special issue on Performance Evaluation Methods for Personal and Mobile Communications. He served as Technical Program Vice-Chair of IEEE 1998 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications. Listings include: American Men & Women of Science, Who's Who in America, Who's Who In the East, Who's Who In Technology Today, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.