Lisa Ng, PhD is a mechanical engineer in the Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She graduated from the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Drexel University with her bachelor's degree in 2003 and a PhD in Civil Engineering in 2010. In between her undergraduate and graduate studies, she did a two-year stint in a Taiwan architectural firm. After obtaining her PhD, she completed a one-year post-doc at NIST where she's been working since 2011.
She has been the program manager for the Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings Program in the Engineering Laboratory at NIST. Her research is focused on airflow and indoor air quality performance in buildings, with a focus on low energy buildings as well as energy efficiency design and operation strategies in general. She is active in the development of strategies for incorporating more accurate infiltration estimates in building energy models and the application of multi-zone airflow and indoor air quality (IAQ) models to a range of building performance issues.
Lisa is an active ASHRAE member (and has been since her undergraduate days), serving on TC2.8 Building Environmental Impacts and Sustainability, the Ventilation Subcommittee of SSPC 62.1, and TC9.12 Tall Buildings. She is active in mentoring students through several programs at NIST, including the hiring and mentoring of many co-op students. Lisa is active in affinity groups at NIST including Toastmasters, Association of NIST Asian Pacific Americans, Women in STEM, and ParentsNet.
Lisa is married with two children (12 and 9) and two dogs (13 and 8). She currently lives and works in the D.C. metropolitan area.