Yang W. Lee

Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Analysis

214 Hayden Hall
617-373-5052
y.lee@neu.edu

Education

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MCP, Seoul National University (summa cum laude)
BS Engineering, Han Yang University (summa cum laude)

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Lee’s research areas include data and information quality; IT-mediated institutional learning and problem-solving; systems and data integration; enterprise architecture; and healthcare information and medical errors. She has taught Information Quality courses for honors students (“Information Quality: Technology and Philosophy”) and MBA students (“Information Quality for Global Managers”), and various MIS courses, such as, “Telecommunications and Networks,” “Information Resource Management” for MBA and undergraduate students at Northeastern University. She has also taught “eIntegration: Strategy, Technology, and Organizations” for MBA and undergraduate students at MIT, and various Information Quality courses for executives at MIT, UC Berkeley, and in many other institutions globally.

Awards and Honors

Acxiom Research Advisory Fellow (2004-2007).

Certificate of Appreciation, Director of Central Intelligence, US Government (2005).

Outstanding Contribution Award, Leaders for Enterprise Architecture Deployment, US Government (2005).

Keynote speaker, Information Quality and CRM conference, France (2005).

Keynote speaker, Database Technology Conference, Korea (2004).

Outstanding Contribution Award, International Conference on Information Quality. (2002).

Joseph G. Reisman Research Professorship, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University (2001).

Selected Publications

Lee, Y. (2008). Interdependency among Information, Technology and Business Processes. Tokyo: Central Economins.

Lee, Y. (2008). Journey to Data Quality-Translated Book. Seoul: Seoul Economics and Management.

K. Schmacher and Lee, Y. (2008). Heterogeneous Quality Information in Healthcare Marketplace: A Stakeholder Perspective, Healthcare Systems Encyclopedia, Idea Group.

Lee, Y., Pierce, E., Talburt, J., Wang, R. and Zhu, H. (2007). A Curriculum for a Master of Science in Information Quality, Journal of Information Systems Education, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp 233-240.

Lee, Y., Pipino, L., Funk, J., Wang, R. (2006). Journey to Data Quality, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

Katz-Haas, R., Lee, Y. (2005). Interdependencies between Information and Organizational Processes. Advances in Management Information Systems, pp.167-180.

Madnick, S., Wang, R., Chettayar, K., Dravis, F., Funk, J., Katz-Hass, R., Lee, C., Lee, Y., Xian, X., Bhansali, S. (2005). Exemplifying Business Opportunities From Corporate Household Research. Advances in Management Information Systems, pp. 181-196.

Davidson, B., Lee, Y., Wang, R. (2004). Developing Data Production Maps: Meeting Patient Discharge Submission Requirements. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 6(2), pp. 223-240.

Lee, Y. (2004). Crafting Rules: Context-reflective Data Quality Problem Solving. Journal of Management Information Systems, 20(3), pp. 93-199.

Lee, Y. and Strong, D., (2004). Knowing-why About Data Processes and Data Quality, Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2003-2004, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 13-39.

Lee, Y., Pipino, L., Strong, D., and Wang, R. (2004). Process-Embedded Data Integrity, Journal of Database Management, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp. 87-103.

Lee, Y., and Wang, R. (2004). Readings in Information Quality.

Lee, Y., Strong, D., Kahn, B., Wang, R. (2002). AIMQ: A Methodology for Information Quality Assessment. Information & Management, 40(2), pp. 133-146.

Pipino, L., Lee, Y., Wang, R. (2002). Data Quality Assessment. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM), pp. 211-218.

Huang, K., Lee, Y., and Wang, R. (2001). Quality Information and Knowledge -Spanish Version. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Strong, D., Lee, Y., and Wang, R., (2000). Contemporary V & V, in Verification and Validation of Modern Software-intensive Systems, Ed, Schumeyer and G. Mackenzie, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle river, NJ, pp. 320-331.

Wang, R., Ziad, M. and Lee, Y. (2000). Data Quality. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality:
http://jdiq.acm.org

Lee, Y. (forthcoming). Information Quality, Database Encyclopedia, Associate Editor and author, Springer.

Lee, Y., Jacobson, J., Wang, R. "Northrop Drastically Reduces Costs Through Client/Server Systems." Cambridge Technology Report, 1(1).

Selected Presentations

Data Quality, SIM.APC, January 2007.

Data Quality, DLIS, US government, January 2006.

Data Quality, MIT, Executive Education, July, November 2005.

Analyzing Data Quality Cases, MIT, Executive Education, July 2005.

“Data Quality and Corporate Householding,” CRM conference, Invited Keynote Speaker, Paris, France, June 2005.

Leaders for Enterprise Architecture Deployment (LEAD) Findings, Washington D.C., US Government, May 2005.

“Data Quality for Global Economy,” Data Quality and Data Management Conference, Seoul, Korea, Invited Keynote Lecture, September 15-16, 2004.

Data Quality Workshop, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, June 2004.

Data Quality Workshop, New Zealand, June 2004.

“Manage Information as Product”, Die Bahn (German Rail), Frankfurt, Germany, October 21-22, 2003.

“The Anatomy of Data Quality Problems”, MIT Data Quality Program, Cambridge, MA (July 14-16, 2003).

“Data Quality in Context”, MIT-Berkeley Data Quality Winter Workshop, Univ. of California, Berkeley, California, Feb 18-19, 2003.

“Data Quality”, MIT Data Quality Program, Cambridge, May 19-23, 2003.

“Data Quality Research”, University of Connecticut, October 2002.

“Data Quality”, Computer Science Department, Northeastern University, September 2001 and 2002.

“Keeping it Real: Ensuring Data Quality for Decision Making”, Environmental Protection Agency, National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 7, 2000.

Industry and Academic Experience

Professor Lee was a visiting assistant professor at MIT. She was Associate Director of Total Data Quality Program at MIT, and Research Associate at MIT. She was a co-founder of the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) and the Cambridge Research Group. Professor Lee has provided consultation for many companies and agencies in private and public sectors in the US and internationally for over 20 years. Many concepts, frameworks, techniques, and software applications produced from her research and industry practice over years are used and applied in practice.

Professional Services

Professor Lee is a founding and current editor-in chief for the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality. She is on editorial board of Journal of Database Management, Information and Management and a reviewer for leading journals in the MIS area. She has served as conference chair, program chair, track chair, session chair for many conferences in information systems area. Currenlty, she is also an advisor for PhD and Graduate Program in Information Quality at University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

Mailing Address

Yang W. Lee
214 Hayden Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5000