Roksana Sadeghi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science department. She has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, where she worked with Dr. Gislin Dagnelie to study the functional vision of people with visual impairment. She also led the psychophysical experiments to understand the visual perception evoked by the intracortical visual prosthesis (ICVP) in collaboration with Chicago Lighthouse and Illinois Institute for Technology. Then, her PhD was followed by a two-year postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Vision Science department, where she worked with Dr. Jorge Otero-Millan to develop an open-source, modular, and cost-effective framework for video-based eye trackers called OpenIris.

She joined Dr. Beyeler’s lab at UCSB in February 2025, hoping to combine her skills in eye tracking and human studies, studying the eye movements of people with visual impairment and improving functional vision by incorporating eye-tracking methods.

Outside of the lab, Roksana enjoys running, hiking, playing piano, and listening to music.