Adel Belouchrani, Ph. D. Electrical Engineering Department  Ecole Nationale Polytechnique  10 Avenue Hassen Badi  P. B. 182 EL Harrach 16200 Algiers  ALGERIA. E-mail: belouchrani@hotmail.com              adel@bsp.brain.riken.go.jp

Biographical Sketch

From 1995 to 1996, he has been a visiting scholar at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of University of California at Berkeley, USA, working on fast adaptive blind equalization and carrier phase tracking.

From 1996 to 1997, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Villanova University,  Pennsylvania, USA, as research associate. During this  period, he was also a consultant to Comcast Inc.

During February 1997, he has been a visiting scientist at  Laboratory for Artificial Brain System, Riken, JAPAN.

From August 1997 to October 1997, he has been with Alcatel ETCA, BELGIUM, working on Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL): Modem architecture design .

Since November 1997, Dr Belouchrani is  with the Electrical Engineering Department of  the Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers, ALGERIA,  as Assistant Professor, where he is in charge of the following lectures:

• Signal Processing
• Digital Communications
• Estimation Theory and Array Signal Processing

He has been, from August  to September 2000, a visiting  researcher  at Brain Signal Processing Laboratory, Brain Science Institute, Riken, JAPAN.

Dr. Belouchrani is Member of  IEEE and Referee of the IEEE Transactions on signal processing, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the IEEE Transactions on communications.
 

Research Interests

Puplications

1.  A. Belouchrani, K. Abed-Meraim, J.F. Cardoso and E. Moulines, ``A blind source separation technique using second order statistics'', IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 2,  pp. 434-444, February 1997.
2. A. Belouchrani and  W. Ren, ``Blind carrier phase tracking with guaranteed global convergence'', IEEE Trans. on Signal processing, vol. 45. No. 7. pp.1889-1894. July 1997.
3. A. Belouchrani, M. G. Amin and  K. Abed-Meraim, ``Direction Finding in Correlated Noise Fields Based on Joint Block-Diagonalization of Spatio-Temporal Correlation Matrices'', IEEE Signal Processing Letter, Vol. 4. No 9. pp-266-268. September 1997.
4.  A. Belouchrani and M. Amin, ``On the Use of Spatial Time Frequency Distributions   For Signal Extraction'', Special issue of the journal, ''Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, October 1998.
5. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin,  ``Blind Source Separation Based  on Time-Frequency Signal Representation'', IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 46. No. 11. pp. 2888-2898. November 1998.
6.  N. Bhalla, A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``Application of Blind Signal Separation Techniques to Airborne Antenna Arrays'', Journal of Franklin Institute, January 1999.
7. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``Time-Frequency MUSIC:  A new array signal processing method based on  time-frequency signal representation'', IEEE Signal Processing Letter,  vol. 6. No. 5. pp. 109-110.  May 1999.
8. A.Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``A Two-Sensor Blind Beamformer  For Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Communications'', IEEE Trans.  on Signal processing ,  vol. 47. No. 8. pp. 2191-2199. August 1999.
9. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``Jammer Mitigation in Spread Spectrum Communications Using Blind Source  Separation'', Signal Processing, vol. 80, Issue 4, pages 723-729, April 2000.
10. M. G. Amin, A. Belouchrani and Y. Zhang, ``The Spatial Ambiguity Function and its Applications'',  IEEE Signal Processing Letter, vol. 7. No. 6. pp. 138-140, June 2000.

1.  A. Belouchrani, ``Traitement d'antenne par Propagateur monocoup a diversite d'espace'',  Master's Thesis , Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, 1992.
2. A. Belouchrani, K. Abed-Meraim, J.F. Cardoso and E. Moulines, `` A second order blind source separation technique: Implementation and performance'',  Technical report  94D027, Telecom Paris, Signal departement, 1994.
3. A. Belouchrani and K. Drouiche, `` Electronique Analogique : Cours et Exercices'', Teaching report, University of Cergy Pontoise, France, 1995.
4. A. Belouchrani, ``Separation autodidacte de sources: Algorithme, Performances et Application \`a des signaux exp\'erimentaux'',  Doctorate thesis report. ENST 95 E 014. Telecom Paris, July 1995.
5.  A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, `` On the Application of Time Frequency Distributions to Blind Source Separations'',  Technical report Time-Frequency Receivers for Nonstationary Interference Excision in Spread Spectrum Communications Systems, Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 5-22, July 1996.
6.   A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin,``  Interference Mitigation in Spread Spectrum Communications Using Blind Source Separation'',Technical Report Time-Frequency Receivers for Nonstationary Interference Excision in Spread Spectrum Communications Systems,  Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 23-42, July 1996.
7. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, `` Blind Source Separation Based on Time-Frequency Signal Representation'', Technical Report Time-Frequency Receivers for Nonstationary Interference Excision in Spread Spectrum Communications Systems, Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 29-56, October 1996.
8. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, `` Interference Mitigation in Spread Spectrum Communications Using Blind Source Separation'', Technical Report Time-Frequency Receivers for Nonstationary Interference Excision in Spread Spectrum Communications Systems,  Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 3-32, December 1996.
9. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, `` Optimal Beamforming for Interference Rejection In Spread Spectrum Communications'', Technical Report Time-Frequency Receivers for Nonstationary Interference Excision in Spread Spectrum Communications Systems, Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 3-29, April 1997.
10. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin,`` A Two-Sensor Array Blind Beamformer For Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum  Communications  '', Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 33-65, July 1997.
11. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, `` Time-Frequency MUSIC:  An array signal processing method based on  time-frequency signal representation'', Rome Labs contract, No. F30602-96-C-0077, pp. 3-23, October 1997.
12. A. Belouchrani, ``A proposed architecture for VDSL-DMT'', Alcatel ETCA report, Ref. DHN970478, August 1997.
13. A. Belouchrani, ``VDSL CAP Modem: Taking into account cyclostationarity'', Alcatel ETCA report , Ref. DHN970546, October 1997.
14. A. Belouchrani, ``A general overview on Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) transmission on copper pairs'', Alcatel ETCA report, Ref. DMT11.970542, October 1997.

 
 




 Papers In Proceedings




15. A. Belouchrani, K. Abed Meraim, J.F. Cardoso and E. Moulines, ``Second-order blind separation of correlated sources'', Proc. Int. Conf. on Digital Sig. Proc., Nicosia, Cyprus, pp. 346-351, July 1993.
16. A. Belouchrani and K. Abed Meraim, ``S\'eparation aveugle au second ordre de sources temporellement corr\'el\'ees'',  Proc. GRETSI., Juan-les-pins, France, vol. 1, pp. 309-312, September 1993.
17. K. Abed-Meraim, A. Belouchrani, J.F. Cardoso and E.Moulines, ``Asymptotic Performance of Second Order Blind Separation'', IEEE Proc. ICASSP, Adelaide, Australia, Vol 4, pp. 277-280, April 1994.
18. K. Abed-Meraim and A. Belouchrani,``Identification autodidacte au second ordre d'un melange lineaire quadratique'',   Proc. JSA, Algiers, Algeria, April 1994.
19. A. Belouchrani and K. Abed-Meraim, ``Localisation de sources utilisant les statistiques d'ordre quatre'',   Proc. JSA, Algiers, Algeria, April 1994.
20. K. Abed-Meraim, A. Belouchrani, J.F. Cardoso and E. Moulines, ``Performance analysis of a second order blind separation technique'', Proc. JTEA, Hammamet, Tunisia, November 1994.
21. A. Belouchrani and J.F. Cardoso, ``A maximum likelihood source separation for discrete sources'', Proc. EUSIPCO, Vol. 2, pp 768-771, September 1994.
22. J.F. Cardoso, A. Belouchrani,  and B. Laheld, ``A new composite criterion for adaptive and iterative blind source separation'', IEEE Proc. ICASSP, Adelaide, Australia, Vol. 4, pp. 273-276, April 1994.
23. A. Belouchrani and K. Abed Meraim,  ``Estimation du propagateur au quatrieme ordre'', Proc. GRETSI., Juan-les-pins, France, vol. 1, pp.463-466, September 1995.
24. A. Belouchrani and J-F. Cardoso, ``Maximum Likelihood Source Separation By the Expectation-Maximization  Technique: Deterministic and Stochastic Implementation'',  Proc. International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Nolta'95., Invited Paper, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 1995.
25. Karim  Abed-Meraim, Adel Belouchrani and Yingbo Hua, ``Blind Identification of a Linear-Quadratic Mixture of Independent Components Based on Joint Diagonalization Procedure'',  IEEE Proc. ICASSP, Atlanta, USA, May, 1996.
26. A. Belouchrani and K. Abed Meraim,``Constant Modulus Blind Source Separation: A New Approach'', Proc. ISSPA'96, Gold Coast, Australia, August 1996.
27. K. Abed Meraim, Y. Hua and A. Belouchrani, ``A linear prediction-like algorithm for passive localization of near-field sources'',   Proc. ISSPA'96, Gold Coast, Australia, August 1996.
28. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``A new approach for blind source separation using time frequency distributions'',Proc. SPIE Conference on Advanced algorithms and Architectures for Signal Processing, Denver, Colorado, August 1996.
29. A. Belouchrani, A. Cichocki and K. Abed Meraim, ``A Blind Identification and Separation Technique via Multi-layer Neural Networks'', Proc. 1991 International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP'96, Hong Kong, September 1996.
30. K. Abed Meraim, A. Belouchrani and  Y. Hua , ``A Parameter Estimation of Exponentially damped sinusoids using second order statistics'',Proc. EUSIPCO, Trieste, Italy, September 1996. K. Abed-Meraim, Y. Hua and A. Belouchrani, ``Second-Order Near-Field Source Localization: Algorithm and Performance Analysis'', Proc. Asilomar conference, November 1996.
31. A. Belouchrani, M. G. Amin and K. Abed-Meraim, ``Array Processing in Correlated Noise Fields Based on Joint Eigen-Decomposition of Spatial-Temporal Correlation Matrices'', Proc. Asilomar conference, November 1996.
32. A. Belouchrani, C. Wang and M. G. Amin, ``Interference Mitigation in Spread Spectrum Communications Using Blind Source Separation'', Proc. Asilomar conference, November 1996.
33. A. Belouchrani and W. Ren,  ``New Fomulation of the Carrier Phase Tracking Problem'', Proc. Asilomar conference, November 1996.
34. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin,``Blind Source Separation using Time-Frequency Distributions: Algorithm and Asymptotic Performance'', IEEE Proc. ICASSP, Germany, April 1997.
35. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin,``Interference mitigation in spread spectrum communications using blind source separation: Approach and analysis'', International Wireless and Telecommunications Symposium , Shah Alam, Malysia, May 1997.
36. N. Bhalla, A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``Blind Signal Separation Techniques in airborne Antenna Arrays'', 15th Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium, Philadelphia, Pa, May 1997.
37. K. Abed-Meraim, Y. Hua, and A. Belouchrani, ``Super-fast Noise Subspace Computation: Application to Array Calibration and DOA Estimation'', 15th Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium, Philadelphia, Pa, May 1997.
38. A. Belouchrani and M. G. Amin, ``Blind source separation using joint signal representations'', Proc. SPIE Conference on Advanced algorithms and Architectures for Signal Processing , San Diego, CA, August 1997.
39. K. Abed-Meraim,  Y. Hua and A. Belouchrani, ``Minimum Noise Subspace:  Concepts and Applications'', 1st International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), September, 1997, Singapore.
40. A. Belouchrani, K. Abed-Meraim and J-F  Cardoso, ``An Iterative blind source separation technique: implementation and performance'', 1st International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), September, 1997, Singapore.
41. M. Z. Ikram, A. Belouchrani, K.Abed-Meraim, Y. Hua, ``Interference Excision of Non-Stationary Signals in Spread Spectrum Communications'', Workshop on Signal Processing Applications (WoSPA),   pp.~207--210, December 1997.
42. A. Belouchrani and K. Abed-Meraim, ``An Adaptive Optimization    for DigitalSignal Separation via the EM algorithm'',  In Proc. of 4th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications, July 1998.Perth, Australia.
43. M. Amin and A. Belouchrani, ``Time-frequency MUSIC -- An array signal processing method based on time-frequency signal representation'', Proceedings of the SPIE, Radar Processing, Technology, and Applications  III, San Diego, Ca, July 1998.
44. K. Abed-Meraim, Y. Hua, and A. Belouchrani, ``A General Framework   for Second Order Blind Source Separation'', in Proc. of Eighth IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Utah, USA, (in CD-ROM), August 1998.
45. A. Belouchrani, K. Abed-Meraim, and Y. Hua, ``Jacobi-like Algorithms  for Joint Block Diagonalization: Application to Source Localization'', In Proc. ISPACS (Melbourne, Australia), November 1998.
46. Muhammad Z. Ikram, A. Belouchrani, K. Abed-Meraim, and D. Gesbert,  ``Parametric Estimation and Suppression of Non-Stationary Interference in Spread Spectrum Communications'',  Proceedings of 32nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA,  pp. 1401-1405, November 1998.
47. M. Amin and A. Belouchrani, ``Blind source separation using  spatial ambiguity functions'', Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale, Pittsburgh, Pa, October 1998.
48. A. Belouchrani and M. Amin, ``A two sensor blind beamformer for direct sequence spread spectrum communications'', Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Portland, Oregon, September 1998.
49. A. Belouchrani, and  K. Abed-Meraim, "High Interference Rejection Rate achieved through an Iterative Signal Separation",  in Proc. of  the International symposium on Sig. Proc. and its applications (ISSPA), Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 1999.
50. H. Bousbia-Salah and A. Belouchrani, ``A Second Order Multi Output Deconvolution (SOMOD) Technique'', Proceedings of the 10-th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, August 2000.
51. S. Aouada and A. Belouchrani, ``Joint Estimation of Propagation  Parameters in Multi Carrier Systems'', Proceedings of the 10-th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, August 2000.
52. A. Belouchrani and B. Derras, ``An Efficient Forth Order System Identification (FOSI) Algorithm Utilizing the Joint Diagonalization Procedure'', Proceedings of the 10-th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and  Array Processing, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, August 2000.

1. A. Belouchrani and W. Ren, ``Phase-locked Loop with Guaranteed  Global Convergence'', UC Case No. 97-127.