I am a final-year Ph.D. Student at UC San Diego and Graduate Researcher in the Digital Health Technologies Lab under the supervision of Dr. Edward Wang. My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User-Centered Design, User Experience (UX), digital health systems, AI and health sensing. My thesis aims to transform interactions between healthcare practitioners and their stakeholders in telehealth consultations through an AI-mediated patient triaging system.
I was a former UX design intern at Salutho Health, building interfaces for their patient management system following healthcare regulations. In the Summer of 2022, I was a UX research intern at Qualcomm, working towards usability testing and how to reduce the effects of cybersickness in extended reality (XR) devices, integrating between UX and engineering teams for better systems. In the summer of 2018, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research in the clinical sensing and analytics group, working on techniques for racially fair PPG sensing on wrist-worn devices.
I am currently on the job market, seeking research, full-time and postdoctoral positions (May 2025). Feel free to contact me (jdesouza at ucsd.edu) if you'd like to discuss opportunities.
Research Projects
Please click on the links below to find more details about my past projects. For design-related portfolio requests, please send me an email as there is private information in it.
