Belal Salama Amin Korany

Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
CV Linkedin Scholar

Lab: Harold Frank Hall 4148
Email: belalkorany [at] ece [dot] ucsb [dot] edu

I am a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Yasamin Mostofi, with current research thrusts of RF sensing and its applications. Prior to joining the ECE department at UCSB, I worked as a TA in Cairo University, where I got my Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering.

Research Interests:

Localization and tracking using RF signals.
Wireless Communications.
Wireless Sensor Networks.
PHY and MAC layers of next generation wireless networks.

Education:

M.Sc., Cairo University, Egypt, 2015
Thesis title: Device-to-Device Communications Deployment in Massive MIMO Networks.
B.Sc., Cairo University, Egypt, 2012
Distinction with honors.

Publications:

Patents:

Y. Mostofi, C. R. Karanam, and B. Korany , "A New Signal Analysis Method for Angle of Arrival Estimation, Tracking, Localization, and Head Counting with RF signals," U.S. Patent Application No. 62/656,050, April 2018.
A. S. Ibrahim, M. F. Marzban, and B. S. Amin , "Methods and devices for interference variance estimation and interference cancellation," U.S. Patent 9,794,097, issued Oct 2017.
A. S. Ibrahim, M. F. Marzban, and B. S. Amin , "Method and apparatus for interference variance estimation and interference cancellation," DE patent application number 10 2014 108 835.2, filed June 2014.

Journal Publications:

B. S. Amin, A. S. Ibrahim, M. H. Ismail, and H. M. Mourad, "Precoding and Power allocation Algorithms for Device-to-Device Communication in Massive MIMO Networks," in Wireless Networks, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 925-942, Apr 2018.

Conference Publications:

B. Korany*, C.R. Karanam*, H. Cai*, and Y. Mostofi, "XModal-ID: Using WiFi for Through-Wall Person Identification from Candidate Video Footage," accepted to appear in the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, (MobiCom), Oct 2019. (acceptance rate: 18.9%) (*equal contribution) [Project page][Slides]
C.R. Karanam, B. Korany, and Y. Mostofi, "Tracking from One Side -- Multi-Person Passive Tracking withWiFi Magnitude Measurements," in proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2019. (acceptance rate: 27%)
B. Korany, S. Depatla, and Y. Mostofi, "Subspace-Based Imaging Using Only Power Measurements," in proceedings of the 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, to appear, July 2018.
B. Korany*, C. R. Karanam*, and Y. Mostofi, "Adaptive Near-Field Imaging with Robotic Arrays," in proceedings of the 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, to appear, July 2018. (*equal contribution)
C.R. Karanam*, B. Korany*, and Y. Mostofi, " Magnitude-Based Angle-of-Arrival Estimation, Localization, and Target Tracking ," in proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2018. (acceptance rate: 26.5%) (*equal contribution)
B. S. Amin, Y. R. Ramadan, A. S. Ibrahim, and M. H. Ismail, "Power allocation for Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying Massive MIMO Multicasting Networks ," in proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2015, pp.1219-1224, March 2015.