Alisa is a computer science Ph.D. student at the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab advised by Frank Willett, Jaimie Henderson and Scott Linderman. Her research focuses on cross-brain transfer methods to reduce the data collection burden on new speech and handwriting BCI users. She is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.

Alisa received her B.S. in Computer Science from Trinity College in 2021, where she conducted research on heart murmur detection and classification. She joined the BrainGate team in 2022.