Sherif Badran

Biography

Sherif Badran is a Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. He received the B.S. degree in electrical, electronics and communications engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2021, and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in 2023, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering under the guidance of Dr. Josep Miquel Jornet in the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking Laboratory. His current research interests include digital and statistical signal processing for terahertz communications, experimentation and characterization of terahertz wireless systems, 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

• Researching various areas related to terahertz wireless communications
  – Ultrabroadband digital and statistical signal processing for terahertz communications
  – Experimentation and characterization of terahertz wireless systems
  – Manipulation and wavefront engineering of terahertz wireless signals in space
  – Phase noise modeling, estimation, and compensation in terahertz wireless systems
  – Error control coding techniques for terahertz communications

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,” to appear in ICC 2024 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver, CO, USA, Jun. 2024.

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 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2024.

R. Mundlamuri, S. Badran, R. Gangula, F. Kaltenberger, J. M. Jornet, and T. Melodia, “5G Over terahertz using OpenAirInterface,” in 2024 19th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), Chamonix, France, Jan. 2024.

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 Proceedings of the 7th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems, ser. mmNets ’23, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2023.

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 Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP)
• IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
• IEEE Communications Letters (COMML)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
• IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)