Dorothy Okello Explained

Honorific Prefix:Eng. Dr.
Dorothy Kabagaju Okello
Nationality:Ugandan
Education:Makerere University
(B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1992)
University of Kansas
(M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1999)
McGill University
(Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2004)
Module:
Discipline:Professor, engineer
Institutions:Board Chair Uganda Communications Commission
Former President, Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers
Significant Projects:Women of Uganda Network WOUGNET
Eastern Africa Resilience Innovations Lab (EA RILab)

Dorothy Okello is a Ugandan electrical engineer, and professor known for founding the Women of Uganda Network or WOUGNET.[1] [2] In 2016, she became the first female president of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers[3]

Education

She has a BSc in electrical engineering from Makerere University, Uganda, obtained in 1992, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1999) from the University of Kansas where she was a Fulbright Scholar,[4] and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (where she received a Commonwealth Scholarship).[5] She has worked to get more women and rural communities engaged in the information society.[6]

Career

She is currently the Dean School of Engineering at Makerere University.[7] She is Africa's first-ever Digital Woman of the Year, an honour bestowed upon her at an Africa ICT Days gala ceremony for the Digital Woman Award finalists that took place on 16 November in Yaoundé, Cameroon.[8]

In October 2012, Okello was awarded the Women Achievers Award for her service in empowering women and girls through Science and Technology.[9]

Okello was elected as the first female president of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers at the institution AGM on 29 April 2016.[10] On 2 June 2016 a congratulatory letter from the Irish President Michael D. Higgins was presented to her by the Irish Ambassador to Uganda Dónal Cronin on becoming the first female president of the institution.[11]

Academic authorship

She is highly respected researcher and has carried out most of her work with netLabs!UG, a research centre within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the university.[12] Her work has been published in reputable journals and some of it includes (1) Coverage and rate of low density ABS assisted vertical heterogeneous network which was published in the 2022 IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)[13] (2) Unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities for developing countries and challenges which was published in the 2020 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa)[14] (3) A deep reinforcement learning-based algorithm for reliability-aware multi-domain service deployment in smart ecosystems.[15] (4) Effect of different organic substrates on reproductive biology, growth rate and offtake of the African night crawler earthworm (Eudrilus eugeniae).[16] (5) Resource-aware workload orchestration for edge computing published in 2020 28th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR).[17] (6) Leveraging the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles for developing countries published in SAIEE Africa Research Journal.[18] (7) Rebuilding the internet exchange point in Uganda published by the 2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC).[19] (8) Regulatory and broadband industry responses to COVID-19: cases of Uganda, Peru, and the Caribbean. (9) Enabling models of Internet eXchange Points for developing contexts.[20] (10) Co-designing with engineers for community engagement in rural Uganda published by Oxford University Press.[21]

Family

Okello is married with three children.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Internet management for nonprofits : strategies, tools & trade secrets. 2010. John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, N.J.. 978-0-470-53956-9. Ted Hart. 31 January 2011. 376. Mobile phones are affordable to many people even in rural areas,” explains Wougnet's executive director, Dorothy Okello.. etal.
  2. Book: Abdelnasser, Abdelaal. Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures. 28 February 2013. IGI Global. 978-1-4666-2998-1. en.
  3. Web site: Engineer Dr. Dorothy Okello sparkles in male-dominated profession. NANTABA. AGNES. 21 November 2016. independent.co.ug. 29 November 2019.
  4. Web site: Eng. Dr. Dorothy Okello – UCC: Uganda Communications Commission. 29 November 2019. 16 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220316201814/https://www.ucc.co.ug/eng-dr-dorothy-okello/. dead.
  5. Web site: Dr. Dorothy Okello – Short Profile. n.d.. 1 June 2013.
  6. Book: African Women and ICTs: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment. Buskens. Doctor Ineke. Webb. Doctor Anne. 4 July 2013. Zed Books Ltd.. 978-1-84813-606-9. en.
  7. Web site: 2011-07-12 . Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Makerere University . 2023-05-19 . en-US.
  8. Web site: African Digital Woman Announced. n.d.. 16 December 2015. 22 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222152638/http://digitalwomanaward.com/2013/11/17/african-digital-woman-announced/. dead.
  9. Web site: Dr Dorothy Okello wins Women Achievers Award. College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology. 16 January 2013 . 16 December 2015.
  10. Web site: Meet Okello Kabagajju the new Engineers' boss. Kawalya. Shawn Davis. 2 May 2016. Eagle Online. 9 June 2016.
  11. News: Engineer's president to push for more science students. Kamoga. Jonathan. 6 June 2016. the Observer (Uganda).
  12. Web site: Eng. Dr. Dorothy Okello – UCC: Uganda Communications Commission . 2023-05-19 . en-US . 16 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220316201814/https://www.ucc.co.ug/eng-dr-dorothy-okello/ . dead .
  13. Book: Mugala . Sheila . Serugunda . Jonathan . Zhang . Li . Okello . Dorothy . Zhong . Jihai . 2022 IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) . Coverage and Rate of Low Density ABS Assisted Vertical Heterogeneous Network . 2022-09-12 . https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/189864/1/1570799776%20final.pdf . IEEE . 945–950 . 10.1109/PIMRC54779.2022.9977479 . 978-1-6654-8053-6. 254930405 .
  14. MUGALA . Sheila . OKELLO . Dorothy . SERUGUNDA . Jonathan . 2020 . Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities for Developing Countries and Challenges . 2020 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) . 1–10.
  15. Kibalya . Godfrey . Serrat . Joan . Gorricho . Juan-Luis . Okello . Dorothy . Zhang . Peiying . 2020-10-05 . A deep reinforcement learning-based algorithm for reliability-aware multi-domain service deployment in smart ecosystems . Neural Computing and Applications . 35 . 33 . 23795–23817 . en . 10.1007/s00521-020-05372-x . 2117/330941 . 224870360 . 1433-3058. free .
  16. Kabi . Fred . Kayima . Denis . Kigozi . Abasi . Mpingirika . Eric Zadok . Kayiwa . Ronald . Okello . Dorothy . 2020-09-01 . Effect of different organic substrates on reproductive biology, growth rate and offtake of the African night crawler earthworm (Eudrilus eugeniae) . Organic Agriculture . en . 10 . 3 . 395–407 . 10.1007/s13165-020-00284-5 . 256063671 . 1879-4246.
  17. Book: IEEE . Babirye . Susan . Serugunda . Jonathan . Okello . Dorothy . Mwanje . Stephen . 2020 28th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR) . Resource-Aware Workload Orchestration for Edge Computing . 2020-11-24 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9306551 . 1–4 . 10.1109/TELFOR51502.2020.9306551 . 978-1-6654-0499-0. 231617676 .
  18. Mugala . Sheila N. . Okello . Dorothy K. . Serugunda . Jonathan . 2020 . Leveraging the Technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Developing Countries . SAIEE Africa Research Journal . 111 . 4 . 139–148 . 10.23919/SAIEE.2020.9194383 . 225022391 . 1991-1696. free .
  19. Book: Ó Briain . Diarmuid . Denieffe . David . Kavanagh . Yvonne . Okello . Dorothy . 2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC) . Rebuilding the Internet Exchange Point in Uganda . 2017 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7983601 . IEEE . 1–6 . 10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983601 . 978-1-5386-1046-6. 19081488 .
  20. Ó Briain . Diarmuid . Denieffe . David . Okello . Dorothy . Kavanagh . Yvonne . 2020 . Enabling models of Internet eXchange Points for developing contexts . Development Engineering . en . 5. 100057 . 10.1016/j.deveng.2020.100057 . 226371257 . free .
  21. White . P. J. . Okello . Dorothy . Casey . Brian P. . Najjuuko . Claire . Lukanga . Ronald . 2023 . Co-designing with engineers for community engagement in rural Uganda . Design Science . en . 9 . 10.1017/dsj.2023.10 . 258464023 . 2053-4701. free .

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