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.

Contact CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley

Opinion Space launched

Opinion Space, an experimental system for visualizing opinions and exchanging ideas, encourages people to express their opinions and lets them visualize where they stand relative to the diversity of other viewpoints.

CSE in Cloud: Computational Science and Engineering will use Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale research

Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded its partnerships with top
U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University
of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using
Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems
software research and explore new applications that analyze
Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news
sources.

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy Awarded 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Professor and CITRIS Director Emeritus Ruzena Bajcsy was recently awarded the Franklin Institute's 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Bajcsy received the award for contributions to robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of active perception and the creation of methods to improve our understanding of medical images.

Dedication of new CITRIS headquarters

The newest research facility on the campus of UC Berkeley was dedicated on Friday, Feb. 27, and embodies the innovation and entrepreneurship needed to fuel economic growth and arrives at a time when the state and nation seek relief from the recession. Photos and video

Taming Buildings a la Carte

Mobile commissioning cart permits quick evaluation and analysis of buildings’ efficiency.

CITRIS study on SF public cameras released

UC Berkeley and CITRIS-affiliated researchers Jennifer King (School of Law), Professor Deirdre Mulligan (School of Information), and Professor Steven Raphael
(School of Public Policy) recently released a comprehensive evaluation
of San Francisco's public surveillance camera system.

Professor Eli Yablonovitch

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Optics, And Photonic Crystals, High Efficiency Light-emitting Diodes And Nano-cavity Lasers, High Speed Optical Communications, Microwave Frequencies, Optical, Optoelectronics

Professor Michel Maharbiz

Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Bio/mems Systems, Bioelectronics, Biosensors, Mems, Micro/nano Systems

Pieter Abbeel

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab.
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Ai And Robotics, Ai, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Robotics

Peter Bartlett

Professor of Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Computing, Machine Learning And Statistical Theory, Decision Problems, Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Learning, Theory

Big Ideas @ Berkeley Marketplace

The Big Ideas @ Berkeley marketplace allows individuals to
support undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about tackling
major global, regional, and local challenges such as clean energy, the
environment, public health, safe drinking water, public policy, and
technology-based entrepreneurship.

Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No. 7 system in TOP500

Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No.  7 system in TOP500, Top Spot on Latest List of World’s TOP500 Supercomputers The No. 7 system, called Franklin, is the second new Cray XT5 system. It  is installed at DOE’s NERSC Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National  Laboratory and achieved 266.3 Tflop/s.

UC Berkeley and Nokia turn mobile phones into traffic probes with launch of pilot traffic-monitoring software

Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can now tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring.  Researchers have publicly released pilot software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real-time information on traffic flow and travel times. (Below: College of Engineering Dean Shankar Sastry opens this briefing to visitors and media.)

Check your carbon footprint at CoolClimate Calculator

The CoolClimate Calculator (http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu) has been developed by researchers at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment to help US households evaluate their complete climate footprints, including all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, household energy, food, goods and services.