The University of the District of Columbia’s academic and administrative offices will conduct business remotely on Friday, Jan. 30. All on-campus activities, including athletic-related activities, are cancelled.
Campuses will reopen on Monday, Feb. 2.
Staff: Contact your immediate supervisor with questions or for further instruction regarding remote work expectations.
Faculty: Reach out to your immediate supervisor and/or the dean for questions and further instruction regarding the transition to emergency remote instruction (ERI). The Center for the Advancement of Learning (CAL) is available to support faculty with instructional continuity, including support for Blackboard, Zoom, Webex and other teaching and learning technologies.
calhelpdesk@udc.edu
Virtual Office Hours
Consultation Request Form
For learning technology tools and on-demand faculty resources, please visit CAL’s website.
Students: Due to inclement weather, the university will be closed to face-to-face operations. Instruction will be moved to emergency remote, including synchronous and asynchronous methods. Certain laboratory, clinical, and other hands-on classes for which in-person instruction is a requirement may necessitate a make-up lesson, but every effort will be made to pursue virtual learning to the extent possible. Where synchronous virtual instruction is intended, published class meeting times must be observed so that students’ schedules are not disrupted.
The safety and security of our students, faculty, staff, and the broader community remain our top priority. We will continue to provide updates regarding the status of the university’s academic and administrative offices as conditions change.
Please continue to check our website and social media channels for the latest information.
If you have any safety concerns, contact OPSEM at 202-274-5050. For all immediate emergencies, call 911.
Thank you for your continued dedication to our students and to UDC’s mission.
Devdas Shetty, Ph.D., P.E., Building 42, 212-P | 202.274.5220 | devdas.shetty@udc.edu
Briana Wellman, Ph.D., Building 42, 212-T | 202.274.6695 | briana.wellman@udc.edu
Paul Cotae, Ph.D., Building 42, 109-D | 202.274.6290 | pcotae@udc.edu
Mavis Johnson, Building 42-212-S | 202-274-5131 | mijohnson@udc.edu
Ann Lankford, Building 42, 212-O | 202-274-5699 | ann.lankford@udc.edu
Hung Ha, Building 32-B01-04 | hhung@udc.edu | 202-274-7460
Pablo Sanchez Guerrero, Building 42, 212-I | pablo.sanchezguerrer@udc.edu | 202-274-5934
Gebretensae Tzadu, Building 32-B01-04 | gtzadu@udc.edu | 202-274-5850
Pradeep K. Behera, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, BC.WRE, Building 42, 213-G | 202-274-6186 | pbehera@udc.edu
Gulen Ozkula, Ph.D. Building 42, Suite 213C | 202-274-6291 | gulen.ozkula@udc.edu
Ujwalkumar Patil, Ph.D., P.E. Building 42, 213-H. 202-274-6327 | ujwalkumar.patil@udc.edu
Dong Jeong, Ph.D., Building 42, 113-A2| 202-274-7455 | djeong@udc.edu
Justin Kim, Ph.D. Building 42, 113 | 202-274-7455 | junwhan.kim@udc.edu
Anteneh Girma, Ph.D., Building 42, 113-G | 202-274-6548 | anteneh.girma@udc.edu
Justin Kim, Ph.D. Building 42, 113 | 202-274-7455 | junwhan.kim@udc.edu
Lily Liang, Ph.D., Building 42, 112-D | 202-274-5086 | lliang@udc.edu
Paul Cotae, Ph.D., Building 42, 109-E | 202-274-6290 | pcotae@udc.edu
Wagdy Mahmoud, Ph.D., P.E., Building 42-109-E | 202-274-5239 | wmahmoud@udc.edu
Amir Shahirinia, Ph.D., Building 42, 109-B | 202-274-6917 | amir.shahirinia@udc.edu
Kate Klein, Ph.D., Building 42, 213-R | 202-274-7131 | kate.klein@udc.edu
Ludwig Nitsche, Ph.D., Building 42, 212-R | 202-274-5082 | ludwig.nitsche@udc.edu
Jiajun Xu, Ph.D., P.E. Building 42, 213-N | 202-274-5048 | jiajun.xu@udc.edu
Max Denis, Ph.D., Building 42, 213-Q | 202-274-5045 | max.denis@udc.edu
Pawan Tyagi, Ph.D., Building 42, 213-E | 202-274-6601 | ptyagi@udc.edu
Hossain Azam, Ph.D., P.E.–Experimental and Modeling Based Water and Wastewater (Water Resources Engineering, Urban Water Systems, Storm Water Management, Non-Point Source Pollution, Climate Change. Municipal & Industrial) Treatment, Solid Waste Management with Leachate Treatment, Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus, Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, Groundwater/Sediment Remediation, Resources Recovery, Environmental Engineering Education. 202.274.6293, hossain.azam@udc.edu
Pradeep K. Behera, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE (Department Chair)–Water Resources Engineering, Urban Water Systems, Storm Water Management, Non-Point Source Pollution, Climate Change. 202.274.6186, pbehera@udc.edu
Bryan Higgs, Ph.D.– Psychophysiological Driver Behavior, Transportation Network Vulnerability and Optimization, Travel Demand Modeling, Multi-level Multi-Objective Game Theory. 202.274.6600, bryan.higgs@udc.edu
Gulen Ozkula, Ph.D. – Seismic design, evaluation, and rehabilitation of steel structures, Cyclic stability, modeling, and design of steel columns, Experimental methods in earthquake engineering, Structural performance under extreme loading, High-performance steel materials, Seismic Risk and Loss Assessment, Performance-based design. 202.274.6291, gulen.ozkula@udc.edu
Ujwalkumar Patil, Ph.D., P.E. – Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Engineering, Unsaturated soil mechanics, Constitutive modeling of saturated and unsaturated soils, Biogeotechnics, Computational Geomechanics, Expansive soils. 202-274-6327, ujwalkumar.patil@udc.edu
Amir Alipour-Fanid, Ph.D. – Cybersecurity, Cyber-Physical Systems Security, 5G and IoT Security, Network Security, Machine Learning, Data Science. 202.274.6548, amir.alipourfanid@udc.edu
Uzma Amir- Area Robotics, STEM Programs. 202.274.6550, uzma.amir@udc.edu
Li Chen, Ph.D.–Image Processing, Object-oriented Programming and Design, Algorithm Design and Complexity, Discrete Geometry and Digital Geometry, Data Science: Theory and Applications. 202.274.6301, lchen@udc.edu
Anteneh Girma, Ph.D., Information Security and Assurance, CyberSecurity, CyberSecurity Intelligence, CyberSecurity Governance, Risk Management, and Security Auditing, Cloud Computing and Security, Internet of Things and Security, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cryptography, and Data Science. 202.274.6548, anteneh.girma@udc.edu
Dong Hyun Jeong, Ph.D.(Department Chair)–Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Cloud Computing. 202.274.6292, djeong@udc.edu
Thabet Kacem, Ph.D.-Cybersecurity, Smart Transportation Systems, Software-defined Radios/Radars, Cyber Physical Systems, Sea Level Rise. 202.274.5809, thabet.kacem@udc.edu
Justin Kim, Ph.D.–Data Science and Engineering, Machine Learning, and Transactional Memory in Distributed Systems. 202.274.7455, junwhan.kim@udc.edu
Lily Liang, Ph.D.–Digital Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Data Mining. 202.274.5086, lliang@udc.edu
Hanney Shaban, Ph.D.–Programming Languages, Cryptography, Data Structures, Data Mining, hanney.shaban@udc.edu
Briana Wellman, Ph.D.–Multi-robot System, Educational Robotics, Autonomous Systems. 202.274.6695, briana.wellman@udc.edu
Byunggu Yu, Ph.D.–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. 202.274.6289, byu@udc.edu
Temechu Zewdie, Ph.D. – Cybersecurity, Information Security & Assurance, Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Data Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Web/Application Security. 202.274.7250 | temechu.zewdie@udc.edu

(left-right) Drs. Behjat Forouzandeh, Amir Shahirinia, Esther Ososanya, Paul Cotae, Hongmei Dang, Wagdy Mahmoud, Nian Zhang
Paul Cotae, Ph.D.–Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Information Theory, Wireless Communication 202.274.6290, pcotae@udc.edu
Hongmei Dang, Ph.D.–Nanoscale Device Fabrication & Modelling, Defect Analysis, Nanoscale Electronic & Solar Cells, 2D Materials. 202.274.5836, hongmei.dang@udc.edu
Wagdy Mahmoud, Ph.D., P.E.–System-level Hardware/software Co-design, Digital Signal Processing, Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems. 202.274.5239, wmahmoud@udc.edu
Esther Ososanya, Ph.D.–Microcomputer Architecture, VLSI & ASIC Designs, Embedded Systems, Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy. 202.274.5837, eososanya@udc.edu
Chiranjibi Shah, Ph.D.-Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Fish Image Analysis, Signal Processing, Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral Imagery, Autonomous Driving, Internet of Things (IoT). chiranjibi.shah@udc.edu
Amir Shahirinia, Ph.D.–Power Systems Optimal Planning and Control, Power Electronics and Motor Drives, Renewable Energy; Smart Grids; V2G and G2V; Plug-in Electric Vehicle, Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Statistics, Data Analysis, Algorithm Development. 202.274.6917, amir.shahirinia@udc.edu
Nian Zhang, Ph.D.–Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Big data, Time Series Prediction. 202.274.6615, nzhang@udc.edu
Ji Chen, Ph.D.-Wearable Robotics and Control, Biomechanics Analysis and modelling, Assistive technology and techniques, Movement enhancement protocol design. 202.274.5039, ji.chen@udc.edu
Max Denis, Ph.D.–Diagnostic ultrasound & tissue elasticity imaging, Breast and thyroid cancer detection, Acoustic remote sensing. 202.274.5045, max.denis@udc.edu
Kate Klein, Ph.D. (Department Chair)–Nanomaterials synthesis & characterization, Microscopy, Electron and ion beam applications, In-situ experimentation, Mechanical properties of materials. 202.274.7131, kate.klein@udc.edu
Ludwig C. Nitsche, Ph.D.–Microhydrodynamics, multiphase flow and diffusion, computer simulations with particle methods, applied mathematics, applications in drug delivery. 202.274.5082, ludwig.nitsche@udc.edu
Alexander Peebles, Ph.D. – Human Movement Biomechanics, Orthopedic Biomechanics, Dynamic Postural Control and Fall Risk, Rehabilitation Engineering, Device Design. 202.274.5139, alexander.peebles@udc.edu
Devdas Shetty, Ph.D., P.E.–Smart manufacturing, Design for mechatronics, Rehabilitation products, Robotics, Surface roughness. 202.274.5033, devdas.shetty@udc.edu
Lara Thompson, Ph.D.–Postural control and mobility, Non-invasive and invasive prostheses, Sensory substitutes, Rehabilitative devices. 202.274.5046, lara.thompson@udc.edu
Pawan Tyagi, Ph.D.–Molecular spintronics, Additive manufacturing and postprocessing, Spin photovoltaic cells and solar thermal air heaters, Nano biosensors and brain imaging, Student presentation based effective Teaching (SPET). 202.274.6601, ptyagi@udc.edu
Jiajun Xu, Ph.D., P.E.–Multiscale thermal transport and energy conversion, Multiscale modeling and simulation, Thermal-fluid science, Nanotechnology, Renewable energy and water treatment, Additive manufacturing. 202.274.5048, jiajun.xu@udc.edu
Rong Zhao, Ph.D.,- Nanotechnology, Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Energy Storage and Conversion, Metal Additive Manufacturing. 202.274.7266 rong.zhao@udc.edu
Hung Ha, IT Specialist, hhung@udc.edu, 202. 274.7460
Pablo Sanchez Guerrero, Laboratory Manager, pablo.sanchezguerrer@udc.edu, 202.274.5934
Netra Simmons, Laboratory Engineer, netra.simmons@udc.edu
Gebretensae Tzadu, IT Specialist, gtzadu@udc.edu, 202. 274.5850
Sandra Brooks, Secretary, Computer Science, sbrooks@udc.edu 202.274.5147
Clara Cooper, Secretary, Electrical and Computer Engineering, cvcooper@udc.edu, 202.274.7409
Tonya Harris, Secretary, Dean's Office, tharris@udc.edu, 202.274.5220
Mavis Johnson, Budget Manager, mijohnson@udc.edu, 202. 274.5131
Ann Lankford, Director of Student Engagement, ann.lankford@udc.edu, 202.274.5699
Veronica Williams, Secretary, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, vwilliams@udc.edu, 202.274.6286