Specializations
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and AI Governance
- Data Analytics, Data Quality, Data Visualization, Databases
- Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Information Privacy, Health Informatics, and AI in Health Care
Biography
Dr. Joseph Yi teaches databases, data analytics, cybersecurity, and data-driven problem solving at the UW Information School, across the Bachelor of Informatics and MSIM programs. His classes treat data architecture as a socio-technical system: students work with messy real-world data and deliberately broken artifacts, critique AI-generated SQL and visualizations, and defend their design choices to non-technical audiences. Before academia, he spent six years in security engineering and privacy consulting, most recently at IBM. He holds CISSP and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor credentials, will chair the ISO/TC 46/SC 8 international standards subcommittee from 2027, and researches AI agents, AI governance, privacy, and health informatics.
Education
- Ph D, Information Studies, Florida State University, 2006
- MS, Information Studies, University of North Texas, 1996
- BA, Computer Science, University of North Texas, 1995