Eng. Dr. Dorothy Okello

Staff Profile

First Name

Dorothy

Surname

Okello

Other Name

Kabagaju

Academic Title

Associate Professor

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Position

Dean, School of Engineering

Telephone Number

0772 957 550

Email

dorothy.okello@mak.ac.ug

Office Number

0414 530 686

Courses Taught

Computer Communication Networks; Television and Video Engineering; Telecommunications Policy

Areas of Research Interest

Smart infrastructure; Affordable and inclusive telecommunication solutions; Resilience innovation

Education Background

B.Sc. Eng. (Electrical – First Class Hons.), Makerere University; M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, United States (Fulbright Scholar); Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada (Canadian Commonwealth Scholar)

Other key skills training/Certification

Registered Engineer (Electrical Engineering)

Research project history (recent 5 years) 

Team Lead, netLabs!UG, “Rural Voices: Strengthening Women’s Access to Enhanced Rural Broadband Connectivity in Uganda”, 2023-2024, implemented in collaboration with Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) as project lead, and funded by Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and WACC/Centre for Communication Rights 

Scientific Director, “TUM Sustainable Energies, Entrepreneurship and Development (SEED) Centre at Makerere University”, 2021 – present, funded by DAAD through the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Project Coordinator, “China Funds-in-Trust Phase III (CFIT III) project at Makerere University: Higher technical education in Africa for a technical and innovative workforce”, 2021 – present. Funded by the UNESCO China Funds-in-Trust Project (CFIT III) and with a focus on the School of Engineering. 

Principal Investigator, “Enhancing Digital Technology in Rural Schools as a means of Mitigating COVID-19 effects”, 2021, funded by IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) 

Principal Investigator, “Integrating REsilience and SUstainability in the pLanning for infrasTructure projectS in Uganda (RESULTS)”, 2020 – 2023, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering 

Principal Investigator, “Development of an Efficacious Patient Management System for Uganda using Machine Learning Techniques”, 2020 – 2023, funded by Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund 

Team Lead, CEDAT, “Empowering engineers to better respond to humanitarian emergencies”, 2020 – 2024, A collaboration with RedR UK, the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers (UIPE) and CEDAT with funding from UK Royal Academy of Engineering and additional funding from the Dulverton Trust 

Principal Investigator, “Piloting A Rural Broadband Connectivity Model”, 2020 – 2023, funded by Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund 

Co-Principal Investigator, “Integration of on-grid and off-grid decentralised renewable energy systems in Uganda”, 2019 – 2020, funded by Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund  

Co-Investigator/Team Lead Uganda, “Household Solar Workforce Development Challenge”, 2019, funded by USAID Scaling Off Grid Energy (SOGE)

Conferences/workshops/papers presented (recent 5 years)

Spectrum Management for Mobile Telecommunications,  February 24 – 25, 2024, Barcelona, Spain. Conducted by GSMA in collaboration with Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA)  

Competition Policy in the Digital Age,  October 14, 2023, Kigali, Rwanda. Conducted by GSMA in collaboration with Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA)  

Climate and mobile ecosystem, October 15, 2023, Kigali, Rwanda. Conducted by GSMA in collaboration with Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA)  

51st PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy, June 5 – 14, 2023, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Conducted by Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida

Published books (recent 5 years)

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Published book chapters (recent 5 years)

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Published journal articles (recent 5 years)

1. White, P., Okello, D., Casey, B., Najjuuko, C., & Lukanga, R. (2023). Co-designing with engineers for community engagement in rural Uganda – CORRIGENDUM. Design Science, 9, E15. doi:10.1017/dsj.2023.15
2. Mugala, S., Okello, D. K., and Serugunda J., (2020) Leveraging the Technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Developing Countries, SAIEE ARJ. vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 139-148. 
3. Ó Briain, D., Denieffe, D., Okello, D., Kavanagh, Y. (2020) Enabling models of Internet eXchange Points for developing contexts, Development Engineering, Volume 5, 2020, 100057, ISSN 2352-7285, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.deveng.2020.100057. 
4. Ó Briain, D., Denieffe, D., Okello, D., & Kavanagh, Y. (2020). The Internet in East Africa, a mixed methods study. East African Journal of Science, Technology and Innovation, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.37425/eajsti.v2i1.193
5. Kibalya, G., Serrat, J., Gorricho, JL., Okello, D., and Zhang, P. (2020) A deep reinforcement learning-based algorithm for reliability-aware multi-domain service deployment in smart ecosystems. Neural Computing and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05372-x
6. Kabi, F., Kayima, D., Kigozi, A., Mpingirika, E. Z., Kayiwa, R., and Okello, D. (2020) Effect of different organic substrates on reproductive biology, growth rate and offtake of the African night crawler earthworm (Eudrilus eugeniae). Organic Agriculture, Jan. 2020. ISSN 1879-4238, DOI 10.1007/s13165-020-00284-5
7. Okello, D., and Mugume, E. (2019) Energy Efficient Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Networks, International Journal of Technoscience and Development (IJTD), Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2019, pp. 41 – 50, ISSN 2001-2837. 

Links to social media (e.g. LinkedIn)

http://ug.linkedin.com/in/dorothyokello

Links to scholarly collaboration network (e.g. Scholar, ResearchGate, etc)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WhFUDUAAAAAJ&hl=en 

ORCID No.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5901-996X