Fisman earned a bachelor's degree from the
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1997. She went to the
Weizmann Institute of Science for graduate study in computer science, earning both a master's degree and a Ph.D. there. She completed her doctorate in 2006, under the supervision of
Amir Pnueli. After her doctoral work, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Meanwhile, she had been working in industry at the
IBM Haifa Research Lab from 1997 to 2009; there she became one of the developers of the
Property Specification Language for
temporal logic. She moved to
Synopsys, from 2009 to 2013. In 2013 she returned to academia. She became a visiting fellow at
Yale University from 2013 to 2016, and a research scientist at the
University of Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2016. At the University of Pennsylvania she was associate director of a project on
program synthesis headed by
Rajeev Alur. In 2016 she obtained a position as assistant professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University, and in 2021 she was promoted to associate professor. ==Book==