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 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 internship positions (Summer 2024) and full-time industry and foundation research positions (January 2025). Feel free to email jdesouza 'at' ucsd.edu if you want to discuss opportunities.
