[Joanna’s photo @ downtown Seoul, South Korea, October 13th, 2023]

Joanna is an inventor and a technologist, whose work is informed by her Christian faith. A former IBM-er, she has 49 patents granted to her name, attained the accreditation of an IBM Master Inventor, was on two IBM patent review boards, taught and mentored aspiring inventors.

Joanna held a seven-year tenure as the Head of Research, Director of Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada; published two Computer Science academic books, The Smart Internet (2010) and The Personal Web (2013); and 20+ peer-reviewed academic papers. She started Devarim Design for the advancement of AI, focusing on AI as augmented intelligence after she left IBM.

Joanna was featured by Christianity Today in February 2022 as one of the Christian Women in Science. She called out Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s aspiration of Artificial Super-Intelligence (ASI) as Today’s ‘Tower of Babel’ in an article she published in Christianity Today as early as June 2020.

In terms of Christian worldview, Joanna strongly advocates the democratization of priesthood (Revelations 1:6) in positions and spaces that God ordains us in this world. She firmly believes that only by proliferating high quality biblical discipleship, that the democratization of priesthood is possible, critical to finish the Great Commission.

To that end, she wrote a book called Being Christian 2.0: Instead of Losing Heart, Let’s Start Over (2022); and started a discipling community, called www.koe.community (KOE: Kingdom On Earth), with the vision and dream to sharpen the like-minded, to build up each other as kingdom-impactful priests at where God divinely situates us.

In her effort to be faithful with the work she believes God entrusted her, Joanna frequently steps up to be the voice of truth and righteousness for God in her space of AI, through the works of her hands as an inventor and technologist, as well as being a frequent public speaker on AI, shedding light on AI technologies and adoptions, sharing divine wisdom she sees through the biblical lens. She believes “Divine Wisdom (DW) > Artificial Intelligence (AI)” is a message worth spreading, because ‘Divine is greater than Artificial’, and ‘Wisdom is greater than Intelligence’.

[From Joanna’s presentation as a keynote speaker @ ASA 2023 at University of Toronto. Copyrighted 2023]