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Moustafa Youssef publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Moustafa Youssef sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 279 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Moustafa Youssef D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Moustafa Youssef sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Egypt Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Egypt Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Egypt Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Egypt Leader Award
  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to location tracking algorithms
  • 2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to wireless location tracking technologies
  • 2015 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Moustafa Youssef is affiliated with the American University in Cairo in Egypt and has a significant body of research focused on engineering and computer science. Their work primarily spans electrical and electronic engineering, ocean engineering, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and signal processing, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

The scientist's research emphasizes various topics including indoor and outdoor localization technologies, underwater vehicles and communication systems, speech and audio processing, human mobility and location-based analysis, optical wireless communication technologies, robotics and sensor-based localization, and millimeter-wave propagation and modeling.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Moustafa Youssef cover diverse areas such as wireless communication, positioning systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and human activity recognition. Notable publications include:

  • "Channel Estimation Approach for RIS Assisted MIMO Systems" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
  • "Accurate indoor positioning using IEEE 802.11mc round trip time" (2021), published in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • "Differential Channel-State-Information-Based Human Activity Recognition in IoT Networks" (2020), published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • "Device-independent cellular-based indoor location tracking using deep learning" (2021), published in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • "The StoryTeller" (2020), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Frequently collaborated coauthors with Moustafa Youssef include Ahmed Shokry, Hamada Rizk, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu, and Ashraf Uddin. These collaborations suggest a network of researchers engaged in overlapping technical fields.

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking.

Among professional recognitions, Moustafa Youssef has received several honors. They were named an IEEE Fellow in 2019 for contributions to wireless location tracking technologies. In the same year, they became an ACM Fellow for contributions to location tracking algorithms. Earlier, in 2015, they were recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Best Publications

  • The Horus WLAN location determination system

    Moustafa Youssef;Ashok Agrawala

  • WLAN location determination via clustering and probability distributions

    M.A. Youssef;A. Agrawala;A. Udaya Shankar

  • No need to war-drive: unsupervised indoor localization

    He Wang;Souvik Sen;Ahmed Elgohary;Moustafa Farid

  • Challenges: device-free passive localization for wireless environments

    Moustafa Youssef;Matthew Mah;Ashok Agrawala

  • Energy-aware routing in cluster-based sensor networks

    M. Younis;M. Youssef;K. Arisha

  • Nuzzer: A Large-Scale Device-Free Passive Localization System for Wireless Environments

    M. Seifeldin;A. Saeed;A. E. Kosba;A. El-Keyi

  • Energy-Aware TDMA-Based MAC for Sensor Networks

    Khaled Arisha;Moustafa Youssef;Mohamed Younis

  • The Horus location determination system

    Moustafa Youssef;Ashok Agrawala

  • Routing Metrics of Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey

    Moustafa Youssef;Mohamed Ibrahim;Mohamed Abdelatif;Lin Chen

  • WiGest: A Ubiquitous WiFi-based Gesture Recognition System

    Heba Abdelnasser;Moustafa Youssef;Khaled A. Harras

  • Energy aware network management

    Mohamed F. Younis;Moustafa A. Youssef;Khaled A. Arisha

  • Handling samples correlation in the Horus system

    M. Youssef;A. Agrawala

  • Energy-aware management for cluster-based sensor networks

    Mohamed Younis;Moustafa Youssef;Khaled Arisha

  • WiGest demo: A ubiquitous WiFi-based gesture recognition system

    Heba Abdelnasser;Khaled A. Harras;Moustafa Youssef

  • UbiBreathe: A Ubiquitous non-Invasive WiFi-based Breathing Estimator

    Heba Abdelnasser;Khaled A. Harras;Moustafa Youssef

  • CrowdInside: automatic construction of indoor floorplans

    Moustafa Alzantot;Moustafa Youssef

  • WiDeep: WiFi-based Accurate and Robust Indoor Localization System using Deep Learning

    Moustafa Abbas;Moustafa Elhamshary;Hamada Rizk;Marwan Torki

  • PinPoint: An Asynchronous Time-Based Location Determination System

    Moustafa Youssef;Adel Youssef;Chuck Rieger;Udaya Shankar

  • A framework for wireless LAN monitoring and its applications

    Jihwang Yeo;Moustafa Youssef;Ashok Agrawala

  • UPTIME: Ubiquitous pedestrian tracking using mobile phones

    Moustafa Alzantot;Moustafa Youssef

  • Nuzzer: A Large-Scale Device-Free Passive Localization System for Wireless Environments

    Moustafa Seifeldin;Moustafa Youssef

  • Wigest: A Ubiquitous Wifi-based Gesture Recognition System

    Heba Abdelnasser;Khaled Harras;Moustafa Youssef

  • CoSDEO 2016 Keynote: A decade later — Challenges: Device-free passive localization for wireless environments

    Moustafa Youssef

Frequent Co-Authors

Khaled A. Harras
Khaled A. Harras Carnegie Mellon University
Ashok K. Agrawala
Ashok K. Agrawala University of Maryland, College Park
Mohamed Younis
Mohamed Younis University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Romit Roy Choudhury
Romit Roy Choudhury University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mahbub Hassan
Mahbub Hassan University of Sydney
Silvia Giordano
Silvia Giordano University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Wen Hu
Wen Hu University of New South Wales
Ashraf Uddin
Ashraf Uddin University of New South Wales
Mario Gerla
Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angeles
David H. C. Du
David H. C. Du University of Minnesota

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