State’s Power Challenges Demand a Response: Sutardja Dai Hall Automates One
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.
Engineering Design that CARES
Assessment Group helps Pinoleville Pomo Nation Implement Sustainable Tech
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.
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
Distinguished Professor Emerita, City and Regional Planning
UC Berkeley
Enviromental Design, Affordable Housing, Animal Studies, Animal-society Relations, City Form, Community Health, Environmental Justice, Equitable Development, Homelessness, Human Geography, Human Service Delivery, Human-animal Co-existence, Land Use, New Urbanism, Park Access, Physical Activity, Public Health, Recreational Resources, Smart Growth, Social Equity, Social Welfare, Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design, Urban Ecology, Urban Parks, Urban Planning, Urban Sprawl
Jaijeet Roychowdhury
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley
Engineering, Machine Learning, Biological Systems Modeling, Computational Algorithms, Cyber-physical Systems, Electronic Systems, Hardware–software Co-design, Integrated Circuit (ic) Hardware, Machine Learning, Mathematical Modeling, Nanoscale Systems, Next-generation Computing, Simulation Software Tools, Verification And Validation
Louise Mozingo
Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Faculty Program Director, Master of Urban Design
UC Berkeley
Enviromental Design, Urban Design And Planning, American Studies, Corporate Landscapes, Cultural Landscapes, Design History, Ecological Design, Environmental Planning, Interdisciplinary Design, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Craft, Landscape History, Public Landscapes, Public Space, Resource-efficient Communities, Social And Cultural Factors In Design, Suburban Landscapes, Sustainability, Urban Design, Urban Planning
2011 CITRIS Seed Funding Awards
This year, we funded 17 seed funding proposals from a pool of outstanding proposals.
Shachar Kariv
Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics
UC Berkeley
College Of Letters And Science, Economics Experiments, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Networks
Elizabeth Honig
Associate Professor, History of Art
UC Berkeley
Letters And Science, Early Modern Art History, Art And Literature, Art Markets, Bruegel, Built Environment, Civic Ritual, Collecting, Copying And Originality, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, Gender And Representation, Mapping, Material Culture, Network Analysis, Painting, Rubens, Visual Culture
Inez Fung
Professor Emerita, Atmospheric Science
UC Berkeley
Natural Resources, Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Science, Biogeochemical Cycles, Climate Modeling
Brian Carver
Assistant Professor, Information and Cybersecurity
UC Berkeley
Information, Internet And Technology Law, Commons-based Peer Production, Copyright Law, Cyberlaw, Digital Public Goods, Empirical Legal Studies, First Sale Doctrine, Free Access To Law Movement, Free And Open-source Software, Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law, Law And Big Data, Legal Informatics, Legal Information Retrieval, Online Communities, Open Legal Standards, Open Source Licensing, Proactive Legal Filtering, Public Policy And Technology, Technology Law
Richard Allen
Director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
UC Berkeley
Physical Sciences, Seismology, Earthquake Science, Geophysics, Seismology
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
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley
Engineering, Mri Reconstruction, Compressed Sensing, Imaging, Mri, Signal Processing
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.
Follow solar forecasting experiments in real-time
Carlos Coimbra, an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering of UC Merced, is leading research in solar forecasting. You can follow their solar experiments in real-time.