Associate Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment and CITRIS Climate
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.
Intermittency-Friendly Community Scale Renewable Energy Microgrids, May 7
Dan Chapman
Curator, CITRIS Tech Museum
Senior Artist, CITRIS Invention Lab
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 19
Personalizing Cancer Diagnostics Using Microfluidics, Apr 4
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, Apr 21
Karl Brown
Karl Brown is Deputy Director of CIEE and Director for CIEE’s Energy Use in Buildings program. As Program Director, he plans and manages new technology […]
Igor Paprotny
Dr. Igor Paprotny is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His research interest include applications […]
Gaymond Yee
Gaymond Yee is a Research Coordinator at CIEE where he works on the Enabling Technologies Development Project as well as for i4Energy. Gaymond works with […]
An Operating System Architecture for CyberPhysical Systems in Buildings and Grids, Apr 9
In Drought and Deluge: How Applied Hydroinformatics are Becoming Standard Operating Data for All Californians, Apr 16
Sensor-Based Cables for Underground Reliability of Electricity Infrastructures (SECURE)
Sensor-Based Cables for Underground Reliability of Electricity Infrastructures (SECURE) takes aim at a fundamental problem: utilities rely on miles of aging underground cables to distribute […]
Residential Energy Gateway
A Residential Energy Gateway, now being developed, will gather and act on household energy data, helping manage energy use and educate homeowners about efficiency options […]
Printable Zinc-Metal Oxide Rechargeable Battery
The Printable Zinc-Metal Oxide Rechargeable Battery provides a micro-power source for devices smaller than one square centimeter. And, since a tiny power source can’t be […]
Open-Source Building Automation Systems for Smaller Commercial Buildings (Open BAS)
Much American business is conducted in mid-sized buildings. They also account for much of the nation’s energy use. An Open-Source Building Automation System (Open BAS) […]
Natural-Gas Pipeline Sensors
New low-cost Natural-Gas Pipeline Sensors can be deployed widely to inspect the underground pipelines that convey and store natural gas, often within densely populated regions. […]
Micro-Synchrophasors in Distribution Systems
Electric power “twists” as it moves through the grid. Micro-Synchrophasors for Distribution Systems let us directly observe this twist, a new parameter for monitoring the […]
Lifecycle Support for Sustainable City Development
Transportation planning is crucial for sustainable cities. Online data for this work abounds, yet much is inaccessible to planners. Lifecycle Support for Sustainable City Development […]
K-MEG Collaboration for Energy Efficiency
Technology for smart-building operations is moving fast, but how well do these advances work together? The K-MEG Collaboration for Energy Efficiency aims to find out, […]
CoolClimate Carbon-Footprint Calculator
The more we understand our own contributions to greenhouse-gas emissions, the better we can act to reduce them. The CoolClimate Carbon-Footprint Calculator shows us how […]
Changing the Rules: Innovative Low-Energy Occupant-Responsive HVAC Controls & Systems
This multi-disciplinary UC Berkeley-led research collaboration is Changing the Rules focusing on building occupants rather than rigid engineering of building environments to be consistent with […]
Public Health Assisting Smart Technologies (PHAST)
The project goal is to apply pervasive computing and sensor technology to personal monitoring that can lead to improved understanding of exposure to hazardous environments […]
Poetry and Big Data Sets
“A poem is worth a thousand images.” – Anonymous Information technology has created a deluge of data; the challenge is how to understand it, how […]