Melani Sanchez Garica is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at UCSB.

Prior to joining UCSB, she received a PhD in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, as well as a BS in Chemical Engineering and a MS in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Valencia, Spain.

Melani’s main research interests lie in Computer Vision and Deep Learning. She is particularly excited about conducting research in simulated prosthetic vision (SPV) and building immersive virtual reality (VR) systems of SPV that combine computational modeling of the brain with different computer vision algorithms.