Research Interests
Core areas of focus
WiFi-based sensing applications — localization, activity recognition, health monitoring
Wireless communications systems and signal processing
Next-generation wireless networks (5G/6G)
News
Recent updates
April 2026
📄 Patent granted: "Virtual content based at least in part on radio frequency and environment conditions," US Patent 12,598,012.
Dec 2025
🏆 Received the IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award for "Nocturnal Seizure Detection Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi."
Aug 2025
📄 Patent granted: "Resource skipping for multiple grants," US Patent 12,389,415.
June 2025
📝 New paper accepted at IEEE ICC 2025: "UX-aware Rate Allocation for Real-time Media."
Work Experience
Professional positions held
Senior Wireless Engineer — Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Working on cutting-edge wireless technologies for 5G cellular networks in the Wireless R&D department.
Summer Intern — Qualcomm
🏆 Roberto Padovani Award
Recipient of the Roberto Padovani Award for interns with extraordinary technical talent.
- Analyzed wireless protocols and algorithms for 5G mmWave networks
- Simulated the 5G access network at link-level and system-level
Wireless Systems Engineer — Intel Labs
- Developed an interference mitigation solution for WiFi/LTE coexistence on Intel platforms
Teaching Assistant — Electrical Engineering Dept. - Cairo University
- TA coursework: wireless communications, analog/digital communication systems, signal processing, information & coding theory, and electric circuits
Research Projects
Selected projects from UCSB and beyond
01 · UCSB 2021
Stationary Crowd Counting Using WiFi Signals
Proposed a method to count stationary people in an area using off-the-shelf WiFi.
- Developed a model relating the number of people to the statistical properties of the WiFi channel
- Demonstrated results in complex multi-room environments
02 · UCSB 2019–2021
Through-Wall Person Identification Using WiFi
Identified people through walls by cross-modal matching of WiFi and video signals.
- Extracted gait information from WiFi and video independently
- Matched subjects across modalities for identification
03 · UCSB 2020
Nocturnal Seizure Detection Using WiFi
Proposed using off-the-shelf WiFi to detect nocturnal seizures in a contactless, non-invasive manner.
- Characterized WiFi signal response to seizure movements
- Developed and validated a seizure detection algorithm
04 · UCSB 2020
RF Sensing Without RF Training Measurements
Enabled RF-based sensing using only video training data — no RF measurements needed during training.
- Transferred knowledge from video to RF domain
- Demonstrated on human activity recognition tasks
05 · UCSB 2019
Multi-Person Tracking with WiFi
Tracked multiple people simultaneously using only WiFi received power measurements.
- Proposed a particle-filter-based single-person tracking algorithm
- Extended to multi-person tracking with 3 distributed laptops
06 · UCSB 2018
Angle-of-Arrival Estimation Using Signal Magnitude Only
Demonstrated that AoA estimation is possible using only signal magnitude, without phase information.
- Mathematically linked AoA to power spectrum content
- Experimentally validated using a robot-synthesized antenna array
07 · Cairo University 2015
D2D Communications in Massive MIMO Networks
Explored power allocation and precoder design for Device-to-Device communications underlaying Massive MIMO networks.
- Developed power allocation strategies with QoS constraints
- Designed base station precoders to support D2D links
Education
Academic background
Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara — 2021
Dissertation: Enabling Novel Sensing Applications with Everyday WiFi Signals
M.Sc.
Cairo University, Egypt — 2015
Thesis: Device-to-Device Communications Deployment in Massive MIMO Networks
B.Sc.
Cairo University, Egypt — 2012
Electrical Engineering · Distinction with Honors
Publications
Patents, journals, and conference papers
Patents
D. Maamari, P. Hande, M. Mondet, S. Kalamkar, B. Korany, and O. Iacoboaiea, "Resource skipping for multiple grants," US Patent 12,389,415, issued Aug. 2025.
B. Korany, P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, P.H. Hande, M. Griot, Y.H. Lin, "Quality of experience-based source and radio parameter configuration," US Patent Application No. 18/810,344.
Y. Mostofi, A. Pallaprolu, B. Korany, and W. Hurst, "Exploiting diffraction for sensing with RF signals and/or for RF field programming," US Patent Application No. 18/904,812.
D. Maamari, P. Gaal, P. Hande, C.P. Li, M. Mondet, B. Korany, Z. Zhou, and A. Elshafie, "Modification of modulation and coding scheme," US Patent Application No. 18/868,055.
B. Korany, S. Kalamkar, P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, M. Mondet, and R. Agarwal, "Effectiveness of application forward error correction," US Patent Application No. 18/190,914.
H. Saad, P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, S. Merlin, B. Korany, N. Leung, and A. Kandhadai, "Virtual content based at least in part on radio frequency and environment conditions," US Patent Application No. 18/167,659.
Y. Mostofi, C. R. Karanam, and B. Korany, "System and method of angle-of-arrival estimation, object localization, and target tracking," 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.
Journal Publications
* Equal contribution
B. Korany and Y. Mostofi, "Nocturnal Seizure Detection Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. IEEE IoT-J🏆 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award 2025
B. Korany, H. Cai, and Y. Mostofi, "Multiple People Identification Through-Walls Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 6963–6974, April 2021. IEEE IoT-J
H. Cai*, B. Korany*, C. R. Karanam*, and Y. Mostofi, "Teaching RF to Sense without RF Training Measurements," ACM IMWUT, vol. 4, no. 4, December 2020. ACM IMWUT Data & Code ↗
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," Wireless Networks, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 925–942, April 2018. Springer
Conference Publications
* Equal contribution
B. Korany, P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, S. Kassir, P. Hande, H. Y. Lee, and T. Stockhammer, "UX-aware Rate Allocation for Real-time Media," IEEE ICC, 2025. ICC '25
A. Pallaprolu, B. Korany, and Y. Mostofi, "Analysis of Keller Cones for WiFi Imaging," IEEE Radar Conference, 2023. RadarConf '23
A. Pallaprolu, B. Korany, and Y. Mostofi, "Wiffract: A New Foundation for RF Imaging via Edge Tracing," ACM MobiCom, 2022. MobiCom '22
B. Korany and Y. Mostofi, "Counting a Stationary Crowd Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi," ACM MobiSys, June 2021. MobiSys '21Acceptance rate: 21.5% · Project page
B. Korany*, C. R. Karanam*, H. Cai*, and Y. Mostofi, "XModal-ID: Using WiFi for Through-Wall Person Identification from Candidate Video Footage," ACM MobiCom, Oct. 2019. MobiCom '19Acceptance rate: 18.9% · Project page · Video
C. R. Karanam, B. Korany, and Y. Mostofi, "Tracking from One Side — Multi-Person Passive Tracking with WiFi Magnitude Measurements," ACM/IEEE IPSN, April 2019. IPSN '19Acceptance rate: 27%
B. Korany, S. Depatla, and Y. Mostofi, "Subspace-Based Imaging Using Only Power Measurements," IEEE SAM, July 2018. SAM '18
B. Korany*, C. R. Karanam*, and Y. Mostofi, "Adaptive Near-Field Imaging with Robotic Arrays," IEEE SAM, July 2018. SAM '18
C. R. Karanam*, B. Korany*, and Y. Mostofi, "Magnitude-Based Angle-of-Arrival Estimation, Localization, and Target Tracking," ACM/IEEE IPSN, April 2018. IPSN '18Acceptance rate: 26.5%
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," IEEE WCNC, March 2015. WCNC '15
About Me
Beyond the research
I am a husband to a lovely wife, Rana, and a father to lovely children, Mariam and Omar. Outside of work, I enjoy photography, traveling, The Lord of the Rings, and football — or as they call it here, soccer!