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.

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Letter from the Director, Feb. 2011

For the last decade, we at CITRIS have focused our efforts there, developing intelligent technologies that help measure, track, and manage water, energy, and other key resources in innovative ways that benefit the economy, the environment, and our quality of life.

Water Sense: CITRIS MOTES and Wireless Networks Deployed to Help Monitor and Manage California’s Water Supply

A CITRIS-supported collaboration between scientists at UC Merced and UC Berkeley professor is deploying networks of wireless sensors in a prototype project at the National Science Foundation’s Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory. The sensors measure snow depth and other environmental factors that, once known, will allow much better measurement and prediction of the availability of our most precious resource.

CITRIS Research Wins Award

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy’s research in “Tele-Immersion for Physicians” was recently awarded the CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award for High Performance Research Applications.

Xiang Zhang

Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Metamaterials, And Semiconductor Manufacturing, Bio-mems, Materials, Micro And Nano-devices, Micro-nano Scale Engineering, Nano-lithography And Nano-instrumentation, Nano-optics, Novel 3d Fabrication Technologies In Microelectronics And Photonics, Rapid Prototyping

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Cheryl and John Neerhout Jr. Distinguished Professor in Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Robotics, Adaptive And Optimal Control, Control Systems Theory, Digital Control, Dynamic Systems, Mechanical Vibrations, Mechatronics, Motion Control, Robotics

Mark Stacey

Henry and Joyce Miedema Professor of Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Climate Engineering, Adaptation, Coastal Climate Change, Human-environment Interactions, Infrastructure Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Socio-environmental Systems, Tidal Estuaries

Isha Ray

Professor, Energy and Resources Group (ERG)
UC Berkeley

Natural Resources, Water And Development, Equity, Policy, Water Access

Claudia Ostertag

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Structural Materials, Alloys, Materials, Mechanics

Shmuel Oren

Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Energy Markets, Electricity Markets, Optimization, Regulation

Gerard Marriott

Professor, Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Bioengineering, Anisotropy), Biomaterials, Biosensors, Caged Molecules, Contact Lens Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, Exosome Engineering, Fluorescence (fret, High-resolution Imaging, Hydrogel Systems, Lifetime, Light-controlled Proteins, Mechanoluminescence, Ocular Therapeutics, Optical Lock-in Detection (olid), Optical Microscopy, Optical Probes, Optical Spectroscopy, Platelet Engineering, Stress Sensing, Targeted Therapeutics, Tumor Imaging, Wearable Diagnostics

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Nano/micro Mechanics, Contact Mechanics, Nanoengineering, Tribology