He completed a PhD in Library and Information Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Prior to joining Eastern Kentucky University, he had worked as a faculty at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky. At EKU, he teaches courses in information organization and access, information resources, and information/educational technologies. Dr. Yi’s research interests include knowledge organization and representation, automatic classification, metadata, and natural language processing. Prof. Yi’s publications have appeared in top research journals in the field of Library and Information Science, including Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, among others.