About me

Postdoc, School of Optometry and Vision Science, UC Berkeley

Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Ophthalmology, UC Irvine (Dec. 2023)

Broadly interested in lasers, ophthalmology/vision science, and imaging. Contributed to the world’s first femtosecond laser trabeculotomy (FLT) for glaucoma treatment using human cadaver eyes at UC Irvine. Currently focused on single-cell imaging and single-spot optoretinography sensing (SCISSORS), particularly in advancing the SCISSORS technique to study physiological processes in the human retina for fundamental vision science research at UC Berkeley.

Email: s-luo@berkeley.edu or s.luo@uci.edu

Research grants:  

• Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar Award, International Retinal Research Foundation 

• Title: "Optoretinography of Retinal Ganglion Cells"

• Role: PI, Amount: USD $35,000 (2025-2026)

• Student Research Grant, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery 

• Title: “OCT Evaluation of the Femtosecond Laser Channel Creations in Human Donor Eyes: Optimizing the Pulse Energy for the Treatment of Glaucoma”

• Role: PI, Amount: USD $5,000 (2023-2024)

Awards: 

• Institute of Physics (IOP) Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2024 (Journal of Physics: Photonics)

• Travel Award, UC Irvine, 2024 

• Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship, UC Irvine (2019-2020, 2022-2023)

Editorship: Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Biophotonics for Frontiers in Photonics

Membership: ARVO, SPIE, ASLMS, IOP

Invited reviewers for over 15 journals:

• Optica (formerly OSA): Optics Letters, Optics Express, Biomedical Optics Express, Applied Optics

• SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics: Neurophotonics, Journal of Medical Imaging

• IEEE: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2024 (Athens, Greece)

• Wiley: Journal of Biophotonics

• Elsevier: Experimental Eye Research

• Institute of Physics (IOP) in UK: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Journal of Physics: Photonics, Smart Materials and Structures

• MDPI: Journal of Clinical Medicine, Medicina, Diagnostics, Photonics, Healthcare

Service:

• Planning committee, 2025 Bay Area Young Investigators Research Conference (BYIRC) 

Classes taken in 2025 Spring at UC Berkeley:

• VS260C: Introduction to Visual Neuroscience by Profs. Rowland Taylor, Bruno Olshausen, Doris Tsao.

• VS260D: Seeing in Time, Space and Color by Profs. William Tuten, Jorge Otero-Millan, and Emily Cooper.

Teaching assistant:

• Sensory and Motor System, Fall 2019, UC Irvine