Assessment Group helps Pinoleville Pomo Nation Implement Sustainable Tech
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.
Announcing our new initiatives – CITRIS newsletter for June 2011
CITRIS’s ‘Big Bets’ emerge out of our strategic planning work and address problems that are of significant importance. They each address a fundamental requirement for human life: Health, Sustainability and Energy.
Nicholas De Monchaux
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist focused on issues of nature, technology, and the city. He received his B.A. in 1995, with distinction in Architecture, from Yale University, and his Professional Degree (M.Arch.) from Princeton University in 1999. He has worked as a designer in noted architectural practices, including Michael Hopkins & Partners in London, and, until 2001, Diller + Scofidio in New York. From 2001-2006 he was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
Ken Goldberg appointed Faculty Director of the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative
New initiative will advance information and communications technologies for all individuals to enhance their awareness and participation in critical civic and societal issues.
SF Chronicle profiles Weili Dai, namesake of CITRIS headquarters’ Sutardja Dai Hall
Co-founder of Marvell Technology Group
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and CITRIS to Develop New Approaches in the Visualization Field
Collaboration to improve visualization technologies for vital applications
Jennifer Wolch
Jennifer Wolch is a scholar of urban analysis and planning. Her past work focused on urban homelessness and the delivery of affordable housing and human services for poor people. She has also studied urban sprawl and alternative approaches to city-building such as smart growth and new urbanism. Her most recent work analyzes connections between city form, physical activity, and public health, and develops strategies to improve access to urban parks and recreational resources.
Jaijeet Roychowdhury
Jaijeet Roychowdhury is a Professor of EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley in 1993.
Louise Mozingo
Professor Mozingo received her Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and undergraduate degrees in Biology and Art History from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. A former associate and senior landscape architect for Sasaki Associates, Professor Mozingo joined the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning after a decade of professional practice, managing a range of master planning and design projects.
2011 CITRIS Seed Funding Awards
This year, we funded 17 seed funding proposals from a pool of outstanding proposals.
Shachar Kariv
I was educated at Tel Aviv University and New York University, where I received my Ph.D. in economics in 2003, the same year I joined the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. I am a Professor and the Faculty Director of UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab), a laboratory for conducting experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social sciences.
Elizabeth Honig
Elizabeth Alice Honig was obsessed from an early age by anything to do with her namesake, Elizabeth I. An undergraduate career at Bryn Mawr, where she served as Costumes Mistress to the annual Elizabethan May Day celebrations, confirmed this inclination. She worked at Hampton Court Palace and then went to Yale. There, her secondary fascination with shopping lead to a change in direction and she wrote her dissertation on Flemish market scenes and the history of economic thought. She lived in Amsterdam for many years, where she could listen to English radio while studying the art of Belgium.
Inez Fung
We study the interactions between climate change and biogeochemical cycles, and focus on the processes that maintain and alter the composition of the atmosphere, and hence the climate.
Brian Carver
Focus:
Copyright law, open source and free software, technology and innovation policy
Richard Allen
Richard Allen is the Director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, and Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley.
David Culler appointed Faculty Director of i4Energy
The mission of i4Energy to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated enabling technologies that will achieve better energy efficiency, improved demand / response, and dramatic improvements in energy distribution.
Dot. The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on CellScope
Professor Dan Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film.
CITRIS sponsoring CalSol, the UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team
CITRIS is a sponsor of CalSol, the UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team. This student organization has completed its latest solar vehicle, Impulse, and is preparing to race in the 2011 World Solar Challenge.
Michael Lustig
Michael (Miki) Lustig is an Assistant Professor in EECS. He joined the faculty in Spring 2010. He received his Bsc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 2002. He received his Msc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004 and 2008 respectively. His research focuses on medical imaging, in particular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Steven Weber
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
Congratulations to this year’s Big Ideas winners
This year, CITRIS awarded five student-led proposals a total of $45,000 in prize money at the April 14 poster session for our annual White Paper competition
Letter from the Director for April/May
The world is full of valuable information that, if known, would save money, lives, and numerous resources. The trusses supporting our bridges contain information about when the aging structures will become dangerous to cross.
Personal Robotics Project
Robotic laundry requires dealing with non-rigid objects which poses a number of perceptual and manipulation challenges.
Learn more about the Personal Robotics Project
Since Rosie the Robot first debuted on television’s “The Jetsons” in 1962, the futuristic image of a personal robot autonomously operating in a human home has captivated the public imagination.