Lisa Sundahl Platt is a researcher with the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), focusing on public health resilience. She is also an assistant professor of interior design at the University of Florida's College of Design Construction and Planning. Platt is the director of the Integrative Prevention Through Design Lab, an institute that investigates ways to reduce hazards to human health and well-being through system resilience planning. She has published extensively on the benefit of using computational models to predict "outside design basis" risk and forecasting resilience in the built environment. Her research uses artificial intelligence and human factors to estimate how applied prevention through design strategies moderates risk and impacts safety outcomes.
Platt has a bachelor's in interior environment design, a master's in psychology, and a PhD in systems science and engineering. Before entering academia, she spent 25 years working in design, construction administration, and operational performance improvement for safety-critical environments within North and South America and abroad. Platt has taught university courses on material sustainability, life-safety codes for the interior environment, and healthcare design studios. She is the creator and instructor of the graduate-level data science for interior environments course at the University of Florida, which teaches students to use machine learning for evaluating design performance. She is also the co-creator and instructor of the only WELL Building Practicum Lab in the United States, currently supported by the International WELL Building Institute.