CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

UC Berkeley

The headquarters of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are located in Sutardja Dai Hall (SDH) on the UC Berkeley campus. Specially designed to house this interdisciplinary research institute, the building contains 141,000 sq. feet of laboratory space for collaborative research, faculty offices, the 149-seat Banatao Auditorium, conference rooms on each floor, and modern classrooms. SDH also hosts the CITRIS Invention Lab, a rapid prototyping space used by UC entrepreneurs in our CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program and the student maker community. The Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory occupies a two-story, 15,000-square-foot wing of Sutardja Dai Hall where academic and industry researchers develop prototypes for new biosensors, photonics devices, and other MEMS/NEMS sensors. SDH is equipped with hundreds of sensors and sophisticated systems for building management that form a living laboratory on campus for energy research and proof-of-concept demonstrations.

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Jovan Pantelic

My research is focused on advancing sensor network analytics which bridges the gap between research and application of sensing networks. This is fully in line […]

Grace O’Connell

Currently up to 30% of spinal fusion patients will need a revision surgery within 10 years of their first surgery. We are developing new computational […]

Scott Stephens

I am interested in the interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems. This includes how prehistoric fires once interacted with ecosystems, how current wildland fires are […]

Dex-Net is the most dexterous robot ever created

The key to this robot’s dexterity is not in its mechanical grippers but in its brain. Powered by Dex-Net 4.0 software created by CITRIS People and Robots Director Ken Goldberg and team, this robot is a lot closer to matching the adroitness of a human than anything developed previously.

Rita Lucarelli

  My work on 3D visualizations of ancient Egyptian artifacts and in particular coffins fits well in CITRIS mission of the Connected Communities section and […]

Dutta Prabal

Prabal Dutta is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley with research areas in computer architecture and engineering (ARC); Design, Modeling and Analysis (DMA); Energy (ENE); and Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT).

Adrian Aguilera

Dr. Aguilera’s current research interests focus on utilizing digital health and mobile technologies to improve health and mental healthcare of low-income and ethnic minority populations, with a focus on Latino and Spanish speaking populations. He is also interested in understanding how culture and socioeconomic status influence mental health and mental health treatment.