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News — , Director of , and , David Lee/Ernst Weber Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, are among 24 New York University professors named to Clarivate Analytics’ .

The annual list identifies researchers who have demonstrated significant influence in their fields — which at NYU, range from biology to engineering and economics to public health. The scientists chosen from around the world have published papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in their fields over the past decade (2010-2020) in Clarivate’s citation index.

Rappaport, who also holds faculty positions at NYU Courant and in radiology at NYU School of Medicine, pioneered the use of millimeter-wave spectrum for telecommunications. His paper “” was a clarion call demonstrating the value — and necessity — of exploiting this underutilized region of the electromagnetic spectrum for future wireless. He is now focused on the of sub-terahertz spectrum radio, key to 6G wireless — and the Center's new area of focus.

Similarly, Marzetta, Distinguished Industry Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, did fundamental research in and developed the antenna technology, and is probing theoretical limits on radio transmission toward a new generation of antennas to enable 6G.

Marzetta and Rappaport, both recipients of the Radio Club of America’s prestigious , are not new to the rankings: they were to Clarivate’s list in 2019 and 2020. Another NYU WIRELESS researcher,, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Tandon, earned as well for her prescient work on information theory applied to wireless networks. Additionally, Erkip and Rappaport are both recipients of the IEEE Communications Society's . Erkip, who won the award in 2021, is just the third woman to receive it. Rappaport was in 2015.

In other centers, an influential paper on the, whose authors included, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and, professor of electrical and computer engineering — both also members of the — was the most-read engineering research in any of the journals produced by academic publisher Springer in 2016.