Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Class Year: 2005

Major: Computer Science

Sport: Women's Basketball/Women's Volleyball

Term of Service: 2021

Lisa Seacat DeLuca is a Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM Watson Customer Engagement. Lisa was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame and received an honorary PhD from Claremont Graduate University in 2017.

In 2016, Lisa was named one of the Most Influential Women in IoT.  She was named one of MIT’s 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2015, as well as, LinkedIn’s NextWave of 10 Enterprise Technologists Under 35,  one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, and IBM’s Working Mother of the Year for Working Mother Magazine.

She is a TED speaker, a self-published author of two children’s books titled "A Robot Story" and “The Internet of Mysterious Things”, and the most prolific female inventor in IBM history and the only one to ever reach the 100th Invention Plateau Award (an IBM internal patent award system).

Lisa graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2005. She married her college sweetheart, Steven DeLuca (Biological Sciences 2004).  They currently live in Baltimore, Maryland with their four children; two sets of twins: Anthony and Nathan (4.5), Emily and Olivia (22 months).  Lisa played basketball and volleyball while attending Carnegie Mellon. Her basketball and lucky number has always been 22 so it’s ironic she ended up with two sets of twins.