Faculty

Faculty (full-time)

Alipour-Fanid, Amir [Home Page]

Assistant Professor

  • PhD 2021, George Mason University

Specialties include Cybersecurity, Cyber-Physical Systems Security, 5G and IoT Security, Network Security, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

: Building 42 Room 112G | : 202.274.6548 | : amir.alipourfanid [at] udc.edu

Chen, Li [Home Page]

Professor

  • PhD 2001, University of Bedfordshire (U of Luton, Luton, UK)

Specialties include Image Processing, Object-Oriented Programming and Design, Algorithm Design and Complexity.

: Building 42 Room 112A | : 202.274.6301 | : lchenudc [at] udc.edu

Girma, Anteneh T.

Associate Professor

  • PhD, Howard University in Computer Science

Specialties include Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Cloud Computing and Security, Digital Forensics, IOT Analytics and Security, Cryptography, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

: Building 42 Room 112E | : 202.274.5512 | : anteneh.girma [at] udc.edu

Jeong, Dong Hyun [Home Page]

Professor

  • PhD 2010, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Specialties include HCI, Visualization, Visual Analytics, Cloud Computing, Network Security, and Data Science.

: Building 42 Room 113 A2 (in suite 112) | : 202.274.6292 | : djeong [at] udc.edu

Kacem, Thabet [Home Page]

Associate Professor

  • PhD 2016, George Mason University

Specialties include cyber-security, cyber-physical systems, software-defined radios/radars, security protocols, security requirements modelling and semantic technologies.

: Building 42 Room 112B | : 202.274.5809 | : thabet.kacem [at] udc.edu

Kim, Junwhan [Home Page]

Associate Professor

  • PhD 2013, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

Specialties include distributed systems, software and hardware transactional memory, fault tolerance, wireless networking, and cross-layer optimization.

: Building 42 Room 112H | : 202.274.7455 | : junwhan.kim [at] udc.edu

Liang, Lily R. [Home Page]

Professor

  • PhD 2004, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno

Specialties include Artificial Intelligence, Digital Image Processing, Fuzzy Systems, Biomedical Applications.

: Building 42 Room 112C | : 202.274.5086 | : lLiang [at] udc.edu

Amir, Uzma

Instructor

  • MS 2014, Computer Science, University of the District of Columbia
  • MS, Physics, University of Dhaka

Interest areas are robotics, STEM Program (Elementary through Undergraduate level)

: Building 42 Room 112G | : 202.274.6550 | : uzma.amir [at] udc.edu

Wellman, Briana L. [Home Page]

Associate Professor

  • PhD 2011, Computer Science, University of Alabama

Specialties include multi-robot systems and educational robotics.

: Building 42 Room 113A1 (in suite 112) | : 202.274.6695 | : briana.wellman [at] udc.edu

Yu, Byunggu [Home Page]

Professor

  • PhD 2000, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

Specialties include Database, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Bigtable, MapReduce, Sensor-network DB, Information Storage and Retrieval, Spatial Database, Spatio-Temporal Database, High-Dimensional Database, Indexing, Data Modeling, Operating Systems, Mobile Database, Informatics.

: Building 42, Room 112D | : 202.274.6289 | : byu [at] udc.edu

Faculty

Adjunct Professor

Belcher, Joel E.

  • 20 Years experience in software development
  • American University, Washington, D.C., MBA Finance
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD., BS Finance

: Building 42 Suite 112 | : jbelcher [at] udc.edu

Besharatian, Hossein

  • Doctor of Science, George Washington University, Computer Science
  • Special Degree, (postgraduate degree) UCLA, Operation Research
  • Master of Science, UCLA, Electronic Circuits

: Building 42 Suite 112 | : hossein.besharatian [at] udc.edu

Hanney, Shaban

  • DA 1993, Information Technology, George Mason University

: Building 42 Suite 112 | : shaban.hanney [at] udc.edu

Hobbs, Reginald L.

  • PhD 2005, Georgia Institute of Technology

: Building 42 Suite 112 | : reginald.hobbs [at] udc.edu

Faculty

Faculty (Retried)

Barnett, David

Professor (Final Position Held)

  • PhD, Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley

Specialties include Network Fundamentals, Switching & Routing, Wireless Networking, Computer Organization, Data Stuctures & Algorithm Analysis.

Manning, LaVonne

Associate Professor (Final Position Held)

  • MS, Howard University

Interest areas are robotics, mobile applications, STEM educational initiatives, and OOP.

Finley, Gail

Associate Professor (Final Position Held)

  • MS 1961, Mathematics, Howard University

Interest areas are curriculum and education related to digital forensics, computer\network security (IA), and interdisciplinary computing courses.