Sherif Badran

Sherif Badran
Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115

Office: 647A1 EXP

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Biography

Sherif Badran received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2021, and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2023. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Northeastern University under the supervision of Prof. Josep Miquel Jornet, where he also serves as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include terahertz communications, wireless communications, and information and coding theory.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Best Demo Award
    • Z. Shaikhanov, S. Badran, J. M. Jornet, D. M. Mittleman, and E. W. Knightly, “Adversarial aerial metasurfaces,” in Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, ser. HotMobile’23, Newport Beach, California: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 134.

Research

  • Conducting cutting-edge research on:
    • Joint modulation and channel coding for terahertz communications
    • Ultrabroadband digital and statistical signal processing techniques for terahertz communications
    • Terahertz channel estimation and sounding
    • Experimentation and characterization of terahertz wireless systems
    • Phase noise mathematical modeling, testing, estimation, and compensation in terahertz wireless systems
    • Wavefront engineering and spatial manipulation of terahertz radiation

UN Lab Publications

C. T. Parisi, S. Badran, P. Sen, V. Petrov, and J. M. Jornet, “Modulations for terahertz band communications: Joint analysis of phase noise impact and PAPR effects,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society,  vol. 5, pp. 412–429, Jan. 2024. PDF
P. Sen, S. Badran, V. Petrov, A. Singh, and J. M. Jornet, “Impact of the Antenna on the Sub-Terahertz Indoor Channel Characteristics: An Experimental Approach,” in the Proc. of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, June 2024. PDF
Z. Shaikhanov, S. Badran, H. Guerboukha, J. M. Jornet, D. M. Mittleman, and E. W. Knightly, “MetaFly: Wireless Backhaul Interception via Aerial Wavefront Manipulation,” in the Proc. of the 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2024. PDF
R. Mundlamuri, S. Badran, R. Gangula, F. Kaltenberger, J. M. Jornet, and T. Melodia, “5G Over terahertz using OpenAirInterface,” in Proc. of the 19th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), Chamonix, France, Jan. 2024. PDF
S. Badran, A. Singh, A. Jaiswal, E. Einarsson, and J. M. Jornet, “Design and Validation of a Metallic Reflectarray for Communications at True Terahertz Frequencies,” in the Proc. of the 7th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems, ser. mmNets ’23, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2023. PDF
Z. Shaikhanov, S. Badran, J. M. Jornet, D. M. Mittleman, and E. W. Knightly, “Adversarial aerial metasurfaces,” in Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, ser. HotMobile’23, Newport Beach, California: Association for Computing Machinery, Feb. 2023, p. 134. [Best Demo Award] PDF
Z. Shaikhanov, S. Badran, J. M. Jornet, D. M. Mittleman, and E. W. Knightly, “Remotely positioned metasurface-drone attack,” in Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, ser. HotMobile ’23, Newport Beach, California: Association for Computing Machinery, Feb. 2023, pp. 110–116. PDF

Service

Peer reviewer for:

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT)
  • IEEE Communications Letters (COMML)
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
  • IEEE International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet)
  • IEEE Workshop on Terahertz Communications, Sensing and Security (In conjunction with the 2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM))