Virginia R. de Sa (Preferred)
Virginia de Sa
Virginia R. DESA
Virginia DESA
Virginia R. de Sa
Interim Co-Director, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Full Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Joined
November 2017
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Emails
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Personal Links
Career & Education History
Interim Co-Director
Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2025 – Present
Full Professor
Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2018 – Present
Associate Director
Halicioglu Data Science Institute, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2019 – 2024
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2001 – 2017
Postdoc
Physiology, University of California, San Francisco (ucsf.edu)
1996 – 2001
Postdoc
Computer Science, University of Toronto (toronto.edu)
1994 – 1995
PhD student
Computer Science, University of Rochester (rochester.edu)
1988 – 1994
Undergrad student
Mathematics and Engineering , Queens University (queensu.ca)
1984 – 1988
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisee
Alessandro D'Amico
2019 – Present
Coauthor
Cassia Rizq
2022 – 2024
Coauthor
Joelle Faybishenko
2022 – 2024
PhD Advisee
Shuai Tang
2017 – 2021
PhD Advisee
Kueida Liao
2017 – 2021
PhD Advisee
Eunho Noh
2008 – 2014
PhD Advisee
Tim Mullen
2008 – 2014
PhD Advisee
Adam Koerner
2008 – 2013
PhD Advisee
Priya Velu
2008 – 2013
PhD Advisee
Josh Lewis
2006 – 2012
PhD Advisee
Alan Robinson
2006 – 2009
PhD Advisee
Paul Hammon
2004 – 2009
PhD Advisee
Hsin-Hao Yu
2001 – 2007
PhD Advisee
Tom Sullivan
2001 – 2006
Postdoc Advisor
Michael Merzenich
1996 – 2001
Expertise
facial expression recognition
2018 – 2026
brain-computer interfaces
2006 – 2026
visual cortex modeling
2003 – 2026
multi-view
, self-supervised
, cross-modal learning
1993 – 2026
Publications
Co-Authors
- Abhinav Uppal
- Busra Susam
- Busra T. Susam
- Chen Fang
- Damaris Diaz
- Dana H. Ballard
- Daniel Maryanovsky
- David J. C. MacKay
- David Wang
- Emanuel Todorov
- Eric Lybrand
- Eunho Noh
- Grit Herzmann
- Hailin Jin
- Hooman Nezamfar
- Howard Poizner
- Hsin-Hao Yu
- Ian L. Jackson
- Ian R. Fasel
- Javier Molina
- Javier R. Movellan
- Jeannie Huang
- Jin Gan
- Joshua M. Lewis
- Joshua Stivers