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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Energy Shock: Perspective by Dan Kammen

A perspective by Professor Daniel Kammen on the energy crisis and the role of the C-GRACE meeting with CITRIS and the Copenhagen Climate Council.

Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy, July 7 – 11, 2008

The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy (GTEA)
provides science and engineering research faculty, post-docs and doctoral
students with the necessary knowledge and skills to move environmentally
sustainable and green technology research out of the laboratory and into
practice.

Professor Daniel Fletcher

Dr. Dan Fletcher is an associate professor in the bioengineering department and biophysics program at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research focuses on the biophysics of cell movements and the cytoskeleton and development of biomedical devices. Recent work from his laboratory includes direct measurement of the actin networks that drive crawling motility, development of vesicle encapsulation technology for cellular reconstitution, and demonstration of fluorescence microscopy on a mobile phone.

Graduate Student’s work featured in MoMA Exhibit

Matthew Scullin, Graduate Student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, is part of a collaborative exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Intel and Microsoft launch Par Lab at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley is partnering with Intel and
Microsoft to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the
powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business
computers.

Severin Borenstein

Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and Co-Director of the Energy Institute at Haas.

Demand Response Presentations Online

The Demand Response Enabling Technology Development project (DR ETD) held a meeting of its Technical Advisory Committee on February 19, 2008. Presentations of this meeting […]

Carbon calculator debuts

The latest edition of the CoolClimate Calculator shows people as well as cities and businesses how their lifestyles contribute to
global warming and identifies areas where they can reduce their footprint.

Digital education and air monitoring projects win awards

An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in
South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones
to teach English to children in India have won funding for two UC Berkeley professors

California Seeks Thermostat Control

A recent NY Times articles discusses the challenge and possible solutions to California's concerns about available energy, including the Demand Response project at CITRIS.

Joint Nokia research project to capture traffic data

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Nokia recently tested technology that could
soon transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways and
obtain information about road conditions.