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The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental, and health care problems. Read More »

Letter from the Director

Dear Friends,

Here at CITRIS, we take pride in our mission. We were established by the state of California to listen to the needs of society and work closely with industry and with our partners within government agencies to turn our technology into solutions for societal challenges. Being a four-campus institution allows us to bring together the best resources within the University of California system and concentrate on such issues as water, health care, and energy. We do inspired work with our colleagues at the Department of Water Resources and the California Energy Commission, to name but a few. Our mission is to take UC research and apply to where it is most needed in society. For more than a decade, we have strived to live up to our mission, and within these pages are more details about how we have achieved that within our four initiatives:



As a public entity, we are always happy to have conversations with you. Please feel free to contact me and our staff members if you have any questions or ideas about how we can best work for society.

Paul K. Wright

History

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) was formed in 2001.

The center was established when researchers within the UC system realized that the real opportunities lay not just in developing new and innovative technologies, but in applying them. read more »

Headquarters

CITRIS Headquarters

Welcome to CITRIS headquarters at Sutardja Dai Hall. Approximately 141,000 square feet of space houses laboratories for collaborative research, offices, a 149-seat auditorium, conference rooms on every floor, state-of-the-art classrooms, and walkways that connect with the surrounding buildings. Sutardja Dai Hall was constructed using concrete with a high volume of coal fly ash, which releases significantly less C02 into the atmosphere than the standard Portland cement. read more »