Jessica De Souza
Postdoctoral Associate
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica De Souza is a multidisciplinary engineer and researcher focused on turning digital health concepts into deployable healthcare technology. As a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University’s Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies, she advances global health tech through deep-learning image recognition, mobile app development, and hardware-enabled sensing—examples include remote lactation support and BP-Clip blood pressure estimation. A former UC San Diego PhD candidate and MS recipient in Electrical and Computer Engineering, her work spans wearable sensing, medical devices, and rapid hardware-software prototyping, with a strong emphasis on user-centered design. She has applied UX/UI research skills across industry internships (Qualcomm, Salutho, UST) to healthcare products, prioritizing usability, regulatory alignment, and real-world impact. Based in Durham, North Carolina, she also brings international research experience from a visiting fellowship in Brazil and a track record of teaching and collaborating across academia and industry.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Portuguese, SpanishProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jessicasouzajds/jessicasouzajds.github.io
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:16 PRs, 93 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
jessicasouzajds/COM-1
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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