Student Affiliate

Department: Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI)

Joseph Gonzalez is a Master’s Research Assistant with the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He works with the development team at the Institute for Applied AI Innovation (AAII) on the CAHSI Embedded Ethics Platform. On that project, he assists in building the web application and database systems that make ethics resources available to the computing community. His work focuses on software development, bringing research and program information into tools for people to use.

As part of the CAHSI Backbone Team, Joseph organizes and cleans program data for reporting, assisted in developing a problem-solving course for faculty, helps coordinate CAHSI programs, and contributed to planning the Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Conference for two years running. Before this, he was an undergraduate research assistant on the CAHSI Data Management Team. There he designed templates to streamline enrollment data collection, developed Python scripts to extract and clean that data, and built Tableau visualizations for the CAHSI website dashboards.

Joseph earned a Bachelor of Music from UTEP in 2025 and is pursuing a Master of Science in Software Engineering with a concentration in Secure Cyber-Systems. His interests include software engineering, data-driven decision-making, and building secure, reliable systems.

Keywords of Expertise: Software Development and Data Analysis.