Summary
Lisa Harper is an AI Technical Manager with over two decades of experience leading language AI programs in national security and enterprise settings, grounded in theoretical and computational linguistics. She specializes in conversational and interactive systems, bridging language algorithms with human-centered design to extract actionable knowledge from human language data. Lisa has built programs from inception to production at scale and continues to shape how AI integrates into user experience beyond the chat box. An experienced educator, she teaches NLP and HCI as an adjunct faculty member and brings academic rigor from advanced studies in computational linguistics and information interaction design. Notably, her career spans government, research (MITRE), and academia, giving her a rare blend of mission-focused delivery and teaching that informs practical, user-centered AI solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
All but dissertation, Computational Linguistics, All but dissertation, Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University
Doctorate, Information and Interaction Design, Doctorate, Information and Interaction Design at University of Baltimore
BS, Geology, BS, Geology at William & Mary