ABOUT ME

My name is Xiaolong Luo. My friends also call me Shalom, which means peace in Hebrew and is close to the pronunciation of my Chinese name.

I am a student in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering in University of Maryland at College Park. I am currently a PhD candidate working on BioMEMS projects and my advisor is Prof. Gary Rubloff.

I grew up in rural south China and spent my college life in Hangzhou, one of the two cities famous with the proverb "There is Paradise above, and there are Suzhou and Hangzhou on earth". It is in Hangzhou that I first met my wife and renewed my faith. I am married and now father of a two-years-old son.

After I came to US in 2001, I spent two years in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. Then I moved to Maryland in 2003 for my PhD study and expect to graduate in August 2008.

NEWS>>

Jun 30, 2008: AVS abstract was accepted for oral presentation in Boston (Dean will be the presenter)!

Jun 23, 2008: Both BMES abstracts were accepted, one for oral presentation and one for poster presentation in St. Louis!

Jun 11, 2008: I successfully defensed my PhD dissertation titled "Programmable biomolecule assembly and activity in prepackaged bioMEMS"!

May 25, 2008: Design Optimization paper was accepted by BMMD for publication!

May 23, 2008: Both MicroTAS 2008 Conference papers (Xiaolong, bioMEMS design optimization; Susan, SERS) were accepted for poster presentations in San Diego!

Apr 07, 2008: Press release: U-Md. Researchers Report Advance in Biological Microfactories for Drug Research. Link

Dec 14, 2007: Pfs in microfluidics paper is accepted by Lab on a Chip for publication!

Jul 17, 2007: Abstract to SICOM I was accepted for oral presentation in Shenyang, China! Yeah, back to China!!!

Jun 30, 2007: AVS abstract was accepted for oral presentation in Seattle!

May 18, 2007: Both MicroTAS 2007 Conference papers were accepted for poster presentations in Paris!

Mar 13, 2007: I successfully passed the PhD proposal. I entered Bioengineering program in Aug 2003 and officially joined Rubloff group in Aug 2004.

Nov 17, 2006: I won the 3rd Place of Student Research Award at the BIOMATERIALS INTERFACE DIVISION of the 53rd Annual AVS International Symposium in San Francisco, CA, Nov. 12-17, 2006.  The title of my oral presentation is "Biomolecule Assembly and Functionality in Completely Packaged Microfluidic Devices".