Lisa K Simone

Lisa has extensive embedded systems experience creating medical devices, cell phones, point-of-care medical diagnostic instruments, and devices to measure human function.  She designed industrial automation for use in the window and door industry and led value engineering for 3D real time dental imaging. 

Companies include FDA, Motorola, Lucent, Imaging Sciences International (Danaher), International Technidyne, and Kessler Foundation Research Center.  She founded Simone Concepts and co-founded Spadix Technologies.

Lisa has performed basic and applied research, acquiring state and federal funding to develop methods to measure human performance in individuals with brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury.  Some projects can be found here. 

She has collaborated with researchers at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Drexel University, and Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation.

As director of New Jersey Institute of Technology's senior design program, Lisa redesigned the program to integrate real-life product development and business standards to the engineering curriculum.  As a result, the biomedical engineering department received ABET accreditation on the first attempt.  She was also thesis adviser for 11 biomedical engineering graduate students.

Lisa has lectured on the use of technology, and the importance of teamwork and collaboration, and has been an invited speaker and panelist for several non-profit, educational, and professional organizations.

Lisa has written numerous technical references, peer-reviewed journal articles and professional conference talks. She published a technical mystery book, If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?

Lisa has served in a number of mentoring and volunteer roles, many of which promote science and technology careers for middle school and high school students. 

• Real World Open University (mentor, instructor) - Hands-on education program for high school and middle school students.
  
• TechXplore - technology competition for middle school and high school students who used technology to solve common everyday problems.
• Christopher Columbus Awards (Judge) - A competition where students use the scientific process to solve real-world problems and change their community!
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (Competition Chair). The competition goal is to promote high quality scientific and engineering research in the field of rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies.

She serves as a peer-reviewer for engineering publications and conferences, federal funding agencies and a venture capital firm.

Lisa has a Management of Technology (MOT) degree (technical MBA) from The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 

She also has a PhD and MS in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in instrumentation and cardiology from Rutgers University.  Her undergraduate degree is in Electrical Engineering, also from Rutgers University.