Dr. Sisman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the AI-X Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship. She is also a member of JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) and JHU Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI). She is leading the Smile Lab.

She received her PhD from the National University of Singapore, advised by Haizhou Li, with visiting research appointments at the University of Edinburgh and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST, Japan). Before joining Johns Hopkins, she was a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas (2022–2024). She is the recipient of multiple awards, grants, and fellowships, including the NSF CAREER Award (2024), Amazon Faculty Award (2025, 2022), Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 2 Award (2021) and A*STAR Singapore International Graduate Award (2016 – 2020).

Her leadership extends beyond her research contributions, with active and notable involvement in organizing key conferences and technical committees. She has been elected as a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2022 – 2024; 2025 – 2027). She is an Associate Editor at IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. She is one of the Technical Program Chairs for Interspeech 2026 and the General Co-chair for Interspeech 2028. She is elected to the ISCA Board (2025–2028), where she oversees ISCA’s grants.

Outside of academia, she enjoys cooking, traveling, listening to music, and taking "long" walks with her dogs.