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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Professor Barbara Mellers

In January 2011, Barbara Mellers was appointed as the 11th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor. Mellers, a globally influential scholar of decision making, is the I. George Heyman University Professor. This appointment will is shared between the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Marketing in The Wharton School.

Professor Kevin Healy

Kevin Healy received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in Bioengineering in 1990. His research interests are biomaterials and tissue engineering. The design and synthesis of biomimetic materials that actively direct the behavior of mammalian cells to facilitate regeneration of tissue and organs, and the design and synthesis of materials that circumvent their passive behavior in complex mammalian cells is the focus of the work conducted at Berkeley.

Ashok Gadgil

Dr. Ashok Gadgil has a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley, and is a Faculty Senior Scientist, and Director in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He has substantial experience in technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation — particularly in developing countries.

Congressman Mike Honda Visits CITRIS

Congressman Mike Honda recently toured the new CITRIS Headquarters building. During his visit Director Paul Wright provided a personal tour of the new CITRIS Museum.

CITRIS Faculty Weigh in on COP15

On December 7, 2009, representatives of the world’s governments convene
in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeking agreement between nations to regulate
and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after 2012, when the current
treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, expires.

Bay Area Drupal Camp – CITRIS supports local open source community

CITRIS hosted the Bay Area Drupal Camp, an event supporting the local open source community. Drupal is an open source content management framework, currently being used to power www.citris-uc.org, and a huge number of websites on the CITRIS campuses, at other educational institutions, such as MIT, Stanford and Duke, and thousands of corporate, non-profit and governmental sites.

Lydia Sohn

Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Chair in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Accelerator-based computing and Manycore

NERSC, LBNL and CITRIS announce an
international conference on the role of emerging many-core
architectures in science and technology. The focus of the conference is
to introduce, explore and discuss the scope and challenges
of harnessing the full potential of these novel architectures for high
performance computing, especially in Physics and Astronomy.

Raja Sengupta

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Sayeef Salahuddin

TSMC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Daniel Klein

Associate Professor, EECS
University of California, Berkeley

Jose Carmena

Jose M. Carmena is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses at UC Berkeley and UCSF.

Steve Conolly

Steve Conolly is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley.