Jessica de Souza

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies at Duke University. I recently earned my PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego (June 2025), where I was a Graduate Researcher in the Digital Health Technologies Lab under the supervision of Dr. Edward Wang. I am passionate about the intersection of human-machine interactions, engineering, and user-centered design. My research areas include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User-Centered Design, User Experience (UX), digital health systems, telehealth, and AI for women's health. My thesis aims to transform interactions between healthcare practitioners and stakeholders in telehealth consultations through an AI-mediated patient triaging system to facilitate lactation support. 

I have experience building interfaces for patient management systems (EHR) 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.

Research Projects

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