CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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.
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering; Faculty Director, Richmond Field Station; Professor of Mechanical Engineering
UC Berkeley
Engineering, Multiscale Modeling, 3d Printing Systems, Advanced Manufacturing, Ballistic Fabric Shielding, Computational Mechanics, Fire Propagation And Control, Food-system Modeling, Pandemic Modeling, Uavs And Swarms
UC Berkeley
Associate Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) and Director, CITRIS Climate Initiative
UC Berkeley
Center For Information Technology Research In The Interest Of Society, Building Energy, Behavior, Buildings, Community Decarbonization, Electrification, Energy
Curator, CITRIS Tech Museum, and Senior Artist, CITRIS Invention Lab
UC Berkeley
Deputy Director
UC Berkeley
Research Scientist
UC Berkeley
Research Coordinator
UC Berkeley
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