Rate My Professor K.D. Joshi

K.D. Joshi is a Professor of Information Systems and Department Chair in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Information Systems from the University of Kentucky in 1998. Prior to her current position, which she assumed in 2019, Joshi served as Department Chair and Philip L. Kays Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Washington State University from 2005 to 2019. Her earlier academic appointments include Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 2001 to 2005 and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County from 1998 to 2001. As a recognized graduate faculty member at the University of Nevada, Reno, she contributes to advanced degree programs in Information Systems.

Joshi's research interests include knowledge management, data mining, electronic commerce, and IT workforce management, with recent emphases on crowdsourcing, generative AI in education, algorithmic biases, gender and technology issues, and marginalized contexts in information systems research. Her prolific scholarship appears in premier outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and ACM SIGMIS Database, where she serves in an editorial capacity, authoring pieces like 'Promoting Ethical Use of Generative AI in Education' (2024), 'AI and Discrimination: Sources of Algorithmic Biases' (2024), 'Future Business Workforce: Crafting a Generative AI-Centric Curriculum Today for Tomorrow's Business Education' (2024), and 'Research on IT and Marginalization: A Brief Summary of Our Efforts, Community Building, and Emerging Themes' (2025). Key publications also encompass 'The Duality of Empowerment and Marginalization in Microtask Crowdsourcing: Giving Voice to the Less Powerful Through Value Sensitive Design' (MIS Quarterly, 2016), 'How IT Leaders Can Benefit from the Digital Crowdsourcing Workforce' (MIS Quarterly Executive, 2018), 'Changing the Competitive Landscape: Continuous Innovation Through IT-Enabled Knowledge Capabilities' (Information Systems Research, 2010), and 'Procuring services through IT crowdsourcing: The role of IT administration and IT flexibility' (Journal of Information Technology, 2024). Joshi has secured grants, including collaborative research on modeling IT career choices of persons with disabilities focusing on military personnel and veterans. She has chaired tracks at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and minitracks at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), influencing discourse on diversity, equity, inclusion, and IT innovation. Additionally, she engages in public outreach through university blogs addressing social issues in academia.