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.

Contact CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley

Iryna Dronova

Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

Murat Arcak

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Juana Isabel Méndez Garduño

Fulbright–García Robles Visiting Research Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute for Energy and Environment and CITRIS Climate

Markita Landry

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and of Neuroscience, UC Berkeley

Jing Wu

Design and Content Strategist, California Institute for Energy and Environment and CITRIS Climate

David Evan Harris

Chancellor’s Public Scholar, UC Berkeley