Veronica J. Santos serves as a Professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. Her extensive research interests span several interdisciplinary fields.

Her work includes the study of grasp and manipulation, hand biomechanics, and haptics. She also delves into human-machine systems, machine learning, and machine perception. Further areas of her research involve neural control of movement, prosthetics, robotics, stochastic modeling, and tactile sensors.