Lisa's experience includes pure research through product deployment. As a senior engineer at International Technidyne Corporation, she designed and developed hardware and software for portable blood coagulation devices. At Lucent Technologies and Motorola, she became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for her contributions to mobile phone architecture, integration and performance, and for managing and training new embedded engineers. She designed and implemented assembly line automation for Spadix Technologies, and led bioinstrumentation research at Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation. She enjoys mentoring students and engineers, and volunteers as a judge and coordinator for student technology and engineering research paper and design competitions.

Today, Lisa is a biomedical engineering research professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, where she teaches design, embedded, and biomedical engineering. She also designs devices and methods to understand human movement disorders caused by injury or disease, with funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Lisa received a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a Masters in the management of technology from the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania.

Lisa currently resides in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with her husband and two high-maintenance cats. She loves scuba diving and underwater photography, reading and writing.