Dr. Porter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University, and a Scientist in the Cancer Research Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

She was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin, from 2019-2023, where she initiated the Electromagnetic Technologies (EMT) Lab.  Prior to UT Austin, she was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and then an EU Marie-Curie Research Fellow with the Translational Medical Device Laboratory at National University of Ireland Galway, from 2015-2019. Dr. Porter was granted her Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) in 2015 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her Ph.D. work was in the area of Computational and Applied Electromagnetics, and focused on microwave breast health monitoring. She also has an M.Eng. and a B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, completed in 2010 and 2008, respectively.