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

David M. Auslander

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.

Professor Michael Franklin

I am a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, specializing in large-scale data management infrastructure and applications. My research interests are primarily in the Database (DB) and Operating Systems and Networking Technology (OSNT) areas. I am a director of the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab (AMPLab) – an industry-supported collaboration of students, postdocs, and faculty who specialize in data management, cloud computing, statistical machine learning and other important topics necessary for making sense of vast amounts of heterogeneous and unruly data.

Ron Fearing

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Mr. Thomas Kalil

Thomas Kalil is currently serving as the Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council.

Susan Shaheen

Professor In-Residence of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Professor David Wagner

Professor Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley with extensive experience in computer security and cryptography. Dr. Wagner is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a CRA Digital Government Fellow. Dr. Wagner was a co-designer of one of the Advanced Encryption Standard finalists, and he remains active in the areas of computer security, cryptography, and e-voting.

Kannan Ramchandran

Kannan Ramchandran received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1993. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. His research group is the BASiCS group. Between 1993 and 1999 he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Lab (CSL) at UIUC and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Image Formation and Processing Group.

Edward Lee

Edward A. Lee is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor and former chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at UC Berkeley. His research interests center on design, modeling, and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems. He is a director of Chess, the Berkeley Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems, and is the director of the Berkeley Ptolemy project. He is co-author of five books and numerous papers. He has led the development of several influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and its various spinoffs.

Kurt Keutzer

Kurt received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1984 and then joined the research division of AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 he joined Synopsys, Inc. where he ultimately became Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research. In 1998 Kurt became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Kurt’s research now focuses on parallel computing and its application to computer vision, speech recognition, multi-media analysis, machine learning, and computational finance.

Luke Lee

Professor Luke Lee is Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. He is also Director of Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He was Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich). He received both his B.A. in Biophysics and Ph.D. in Applied Physics/Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.

Connie Chang-Hasnain

Constance (Connie) Chang-Hasnain is the faculty director of the Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory at CITRIS, as of January 2019. Chang-Hasnain also serves as associate dean for strategic alliances for the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1996 and is now the John R. Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Arun Majumdar

Professor Arun Majumdar received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) in 1985, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, for research conducted in the laboratory of Professor Chang-Lin Tien. After being on the faculty of Arizona State University (1989-92) and University of California, Santa Barbara (1992-96), he began his faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley on January 1, 1997.

Alex Zettl

Alex Zettl received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1978 and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1983. He joined the Physics Department faculty at UC Berkeley in 1983. Currently he is Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and Senior Scientist at LBNL.

Chenming Hu

TSMC Distinguished Chair, Professor
UC Berkeley

Liwei Lin

Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Jeffrey Bokor

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

Roya Maboudian

Roya Maboudian is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center at UC Berkeley. She is currently serving as editor to the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), as associate editor to IEEE/SPIE Journal on Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS (JM3), and as advisory board member to ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (AMI).