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:

Applications of RF sensing: e.g. Localization, tracking, person identification, health monitoring, and others.
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 , "System and method of angle-of-arrival estimation, object localization, and target tracking, with received signal magnitude," 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. Korany, H.Cai, and Y. Mostofi, "Multiple People Identification Through-Walls Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi," accepted to appear in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, December 2020. (Impact factor: 9.9)
H. Cai*, B. Korany*, C. R. Karanam*, and Y. Mostofi, "Teaching RF to Sense without RF Training Measurements," accepted to appear in the ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) Journal, December 2020.
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," in proceedings of 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, 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, 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.