Misti Yang was Mellon Assistant Professor of the Public Communication of Science and Technology at Vanderbilt University. Her current book manuscript, an intellectual biography of Joseph Weizenbaum, articulates how the practices of rhetoric can inform ethics in engineering, specifically the development of artificial intelligence. In addition to the public communication of science, technology, and engineering, she wrote and taught about ethics, public speaking, argumentation, and rhetorical criticism.
Her interest in the rhetoric of engineering started while working for Silicon Valley startups, including Yelp. She also worked as a freelance writer specializing in technology stories, travel pieces, and general interest stories. She had experience in content creation, social media, event planning, and PR.