Steven Luo

Steven Luo

Computer Science, Data Science, and Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

Hi, I’m Steven! 👋

I am a 4th-year undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley double majoring in computer science and data science, with a minor in public policy. My research interests broadly lie in computer vision, simulating behaviors, safe human-AI interaction, and technology/AI policy, and am currently applying to graduate programs in Computer Science. I currently work on bias evaluations and debiasing LLMs, and drone autonomy in the Video and Image Processing Lab with Professor Avideh Zakhor. I am also building the Tech Policy Initiative at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, organize an AI policy reading group at the Berkeley AI Safety Initiative, and course staff for CS 189/289A: Introduction to Machine Learning.

I’m grateful to be supported by the Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship and Cal Alumni Association’s Leadership Award. I am also a Data Scholar and part of the STEM Excellence through Equity and Diversity (SEED) Scholars Honors Program.

In addition to my academic pursuits, I enjoy teaching (especially CS education and science communication), reading, cooking, as well as watching the symphony and opera. I’m also a student in the UC Berkeley carillon program and a member of the Berkeley Carillon Guild. This year, I’m challenging myself to read one book every month (with occasional accompanying blogs). Have titles to suggest or thoughts to share? Feel free to reach out — I’d love to hear from you!

If you would like to contact me, you can email me at sfluo (AT@) berkeley (DOT.) edu. Thanks for stopping by!

News

  • [Jul. 2025] I’m organizing an AI policy reading group (sign up here) with the Berkeley AI Safety Initiative!
  • [Jun. 2025] We built Compass at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon, a “digital case-worker” that helps users navigate applications for government services and automatically fill out applications.
  • [Jun. 2025] Had a blast at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School!
  • [Apr. 2025] I’m excited to participate in the Brown CNTR Tech & Policy Summer School in July!
  • [Apr. 2025] My policy memo defining a limited private right of action for AI harms in K-12 eduction (with Saanvi Arora) won 2nd place at the 2025 Berkeley AI Policy Hackathon!
  • [Feb. 2025] Hearti won the Grand Prize: Most Impactful award at Stanford’s TreeHacks!
  • [Jan. 2025] I was admitted to the EECS Honors Program.
  • [Jan. 2025] I presented my paper “From Simulation to Reality with Random Noise” at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando, Florida.
  • [Nov. 2023] I was selected to participate in the ICANN79 Community Forum NextGen@ICANN Program.