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

Q&A with Director Spanos

­­­Professor Costas Spanos became the fourth director of CITRIS on February 1, 2014. He is Andrew S. Grove Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering and […]

Grading the State

A mobile app closes the communication gap between citizens and their representatives. Information technology holds great potential for giving politicians and civic leaders a more […]

The RAVEN Surgical Robotic System

Robot-Assisted Tele-Surgery for Tele-Health Tele-surgery over longer distances is not yet possible. Time-delays, although brief, pose a major challenge and can lead to mechanical instabilities […]

Costas Spanos

Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS),
Director Emeritus (2014–23), CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Integrated Circuits, Physical Electronics, Power And Energy, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Solid-state Devices

Carl Blumstein

Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment
UC Berkeley

Ciee, Behavioral Ecology; Conservation, Behavioral Energy Use, Building Energy Systems, Clean Energy Research, Climate And Energy Systems, Electricity Markets And Restructuring, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Energy Program Evaluation, Public Interest Energy Funding, Regulatory And Legislative Energy Policy

David Culler

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Climate, Computer Architecture, Cyber-physical Systems, Distributed Systems, Embedded Systems, Networking

Steven Glaser

Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Acoustic Emission, Ecological Wireless Networks, Environmental Monitoring, Forest Hydrology, Fracture Propagation, Friction, Geophysics, Geothermal Energy, Nano-seismology, Rock Mechanics, Rock Physics, Sierra Nevada, Snow Melt, Water Balance

Ken Goldberg

Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Artificial Intelligence And Robotics, Art And Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Automation Design, Cloud Robotics, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Home Robots, Human–computer Interaction, Intelligent Control Systems, Interactive Systems, Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Learning From Demonstrations, Manufacturing Automation, Robot-assisted Surgery, Robotics

Greg Niemeyer

Professor, New Media
UC Berkeley

Letters And Science, Data Media, Art, Data Science, Digital Media Installations, New Technology, Photography, Video Games

Eric Paulos

Professor, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Founder and Director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Human-computer Interaction, Design, Ubiquitous Computing

Bjoern Hartmann

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Human And Artificial Intelligence, Design Tools, Human-ai Interaction, Human-computer Interaction (hci)

James Holston

Professor, Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Letters And Science, Political Sociology, Arboviral Disease Prevention, Associational Life, Civic Technology, Community Engagement, Community-based Entomology, Covid-19 Impacts, Danish Cities, Democratic Association, Denguechat, Insurgent Cities, Participatory Research, Public Health Innovation, Social Apps Lab, Social Software Platforms, Urban Citizenship