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

Research Interests:

• Localization and tracking using RF signals.

• Wireless Communications.

• Wireless Sensor Networks.

• PHY and MAC layers of next generation wireless networks.

Recent News:

• Feb 2019: Our paper on Multi-Person Passive Tracking with WiFi Magnitude Measurements has been accepted to appear in the proceedings of IPSN'19.

• Apr 2018: Two papers have been accepted to appear in the proceedings of IEEE SAM Workshop '18.

• Jan 2018: Our paper on Magnitude-Based Angle-of-Arrival Estimation, Localization, and Target Tracking has been accepted to appear in the proceedings of IPSN'18.

• Dec 2017: Successfully passed my PhD qualification exam at the ECE department in UCSB.

• Nov 2016: Received the Roberto Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm, for interns who demonstrate extraordinary technical talent during their summer internships.

• June 2016: Joind Qualcomm, New Jersey for a summer intenship.

• May 2016: Blessed with my first baby daughter, Mariam :).

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:

• C.R. Karanam, B. Korany, and Y. Mostofi,"Tracking from One Side -- Multi-Person Passive Tracking withWiFi Magnitude Measurements," to appear 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.