San Francisco, CA

AI Advisor
& Product Manager

I transform enterprise challenges into AI products that drive real impact through product strategy, agentic systems, and technical depth.

Lisa Pederson

Experience

Chevron: Enterprise AI 2025 – Present
AI Product Manager

Define vision, strategy, and roadmap for an enterprise-scale LLM-powered recommendation engine. Leads a cross-functional team of AI engineers and applied scientists from problem framing through development.

MIT AI Conference 2026 2026 – Present
Co-Chief Operating Officer

Spearheading speaker selection and agenda design for the MIT AI Conference's 10th anniversary, drawing top researchers, founders, and industry leaders.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024 – 2025
Masters in System Design and Management

Advanced coursework spanning machine learning, product design, software architecture, innovation strategy, and systems thinking across MIT's School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management.

Chevron 2014 – 2024
Project Manager > Product Manager

Started in project management, grew into advising the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team, and ultimately led digital transformation projects to optimize routes and enhance transportation operations as a Product Manager.

Portfolio

Interactive AI Spring 2026

Monet in Motion: An AI-Powered Interactive Art Exhibit

I built a virtual Claude Monet gallery where your hand controls the experience. Using Claude Code, I created an interactive exhibit that tracks your hand movements through your webcam (powered by MediaPipe Hand Landmarker) to render visual effects and navigate the collection with hand gestures. Beyond art, this same approach has real potential in giving feedback for fitness, physical therapy, and patient support applications.

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Claude CodeMediaPipeVercelInteractive
Web Application Spring 2026

Curated Tech Event Recommendations in San Francisco

After scrolling through pages of tech events on Luma and emails, I decided to put codex to work. I created an event recommendation tool that recommends events over the next two weeks based on my interests. If you'd like to try it out, check out the link below.

Built with Codex · Designed with Claude · Deployed on Vercel

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CodexClaudeVercel
Voice AI 2025–2026

Voice Agents Have Truly Come to Life in Just 8 Months

In August 2025, I built a multi-language voice agent using ElevenLabs and OpenAI's GPT-5 to automatically match a user's conversation to the right language agent, complete with RAG-powered exam prep and conversation guides for French, Spanish, and Korean.

In April 2026, after a recent conversation with ElevenLabs, I was encouraged to check out their latest improvements. By updating the stack, I can now practice my French with an English-speaking agent who can explain my error and then have a native French speaker say the correct version to hear the native dialect.

Evolution of the stack, 2025 → 2026
LLM: OpenAI GPT-5 → Claude Sonnet 4.6
Voice: ElevenLabs Turbo → Eleven v3, enabling more expressive speech

ElevenLabsClaude Sonnet 4.6RAGOpenAIVoice AI
Statura posture sensor
Product Design Spring 2025

Statura: A Posture Sensor with Haptic Feedback

In 15.783 Product Design and Development, I worked with a team of mechanical engineers, RISD industrial designers, and fellow Sloan students to build a real working product to solve a problem that a few of us faced sitting too long at desks and slouching watching TV.

Statura is a compact, clip-on posture sensor with haptic feedback and a gamified companion app. The idea came from a simple insight we kept hearing in user interviews: people wanted to improve their posture, but existing solutions were either too obtrusive, too uncomfortable, or too easy to ignore. We spent the semester testing that assumption — going from prototypes taped to t-shirts to a polished alpha prototype with Bluetooth, a 48-hour battery, and an app featuring a little bear that levels up as your posture improves.

As a System Design and Management student, I found engineers optimizing the sensor specs while the design instinct was to make it something you'd actually want to wear. Figuring out how to honor both attributes is an underlying theme that is behind some of the products you love today.

HardwareMITBluetoothProduct DesignGamification
Glydways autonomous snowplow vehicles
Systems Engineering Spring 2025

Cold-Climate Autonomy: Winter Operations for Glydways × MIT SDM

In the MIT System Design and Management Core, our team partnered with Glydways, a startup building autonomous personal rapid transit on dedicated tracks, to answer a question they hadn't yet addressed: could their system operate safely in winter?

We evaluated six major architectural decisions and used Monte Carlo simulations to compare options across cost and uptime. Our recommendation was a dedicated autonomous snowplow vehicle with salt distribution. This landed on the Pareto frontier for its low capital cost, minimal infrastructure changes, and a design that fit naturally with Glydways' existing autonomous vehicle ethos.

What stayed with me was how much the problem framing mattered. Winter operability sounds like a technical challenge, but it's really a market expansion enabler. Enabling their architecture to operate in different system conditions allows Glydways to enter more cities!

Systems EngineeringMonte Carlo SimulationAutonomous VehiclesMIT SDM
lisa.pederson.sf@gmail.com

San Francisco, CA