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

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Ali Javey

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Professor Dorian Liepmann

Research interests:
BioMEMS, Drug Delivery Systems, Biofluid Dynamics, Mixing, Free Surface Flows/Spray, Advanced Heat Transfer

CITRIS and Hong Kong open R&D Centers

On April 20, five new R&D centers opened in Hong Kong to further
promote the development of innovation and technology.  Hosted by
local universities and technology support organisations, including CITRIS, the Centers
provide a one-stop service for applied research, technology transfer and
commercialisation and help facilitate industries to move up the value chain.
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Low Cost, High Tech

Research by CITRIS researchers and corporate partners is helping bring
high tech to the developing world at a price that's right.

Edward Arens

Edward Arens, Ph.D., is a Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley.

Rastislav Bodik

Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

Professor Lofti Zadeh

The basic ideas underlying soft computing in current incarnation have links to many earlier influences, among them Prof. Zadeh’s 1965 paper on fuzzy sets; the 1973 paper on the analysis of complex systems and decision processes; and the 1979 report (1981 paper) on possibility theory and soft data analysis.
BISC Program is the world-leading center for basic and applied research in soft computing.

Professor Lee Schruben

Professor Schruben is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on simulation. His interests lie in optimization and design of experiments for complex systems, as well as optimization of hi-tech production and operations.

Professor Philip M. Kaminsky

Phil Kaminsky is a professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 1997. Prior to that, he worked in production engineering and control at Merck and Co. His current research focuses on the analysis and development of robust and efficient techniques for the design and operation of logistics systems and supply chains.

Professor Robert C. Leachman

Rob Leachman is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Leachman is the author of more than 50 technical publications and has supervised more than 30 PhD dissertations concerning production and operations management. He also is President and CEO of Leachman and Associates LLC, a firm providing consulting and software for operations management and logistics analysis to corporations and governments.

Professor J. George Shanthikumar

I work mainly on the design, analysis and control of stochastic systems such as communication andmanufacturing systems. However, a good part of my effort is directed towards developing methodologies tosimplify these tasks.

Professor Jan Rabaey

Jan holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has been the the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice.

Nicholas Sitar

Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

Paul Wright

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
CITRIS Director Emeritus (2007–14)

David M. Auslander

David M. Auslander is Professor of the Graduate School, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley.

Alice Agogino

Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Anthony Joseph

Dr. Joseph received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in EECS in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1998, all from MIT. He has been on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley since 1998, holding the Chancellor’s Associate Professor Chair since 2007. Starting in June, he will be the director of the Intel Research Berkeley Laboratory.

Joseph Hellerstein

Joseph M. Hellerstein is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Hellerstein’s work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing.