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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James Demmel

Kames Demmel was the CITRIS Chief Scientist at its inception and worked to create an atmosphere of collaboration and communication that fostered an interdisciplinary approach to information technology research.

Dr. Demmel received his BS in Mathematics from Caltech in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1983. After spending six years on the faculty of the Courant Institute, New York University, he joined the Computer Science Division and Mathematics Department at Berkeley in 1990, where he holds a joint appointment.

Randy Katz

CITRIS Interim Director Emeritus
(before 2001 launch)

Ruzena Bajcsy

Professor Emerita of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
CITRIS Director Emerita (2001–04)

Western Institute of Nanoelectronics launched

The University of California, Berkeley; UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science; UC Santa Barbara; and Stanford University are
teaming up to launch the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics, one of the world’s largest joint research
programs focusing on the pioneering technology called "spintronics." More

$20K CITRIS competition for student ideas

CITRIS is sponsoring a $20K "white paper" competition that is open to teams of undergraduate and graduate students from all 4 CITRIS campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Santa Cruz, and Merced). Papers are due May 1, 2006. More

Interview with Robert Bea online

UC Berkeley professor Robert Bea discusses the progress of levee rebuildng in New Orleans in an online interview with the Earth & Sky radio series.

Services: Science, Management and Engineering curriculum launched

CITRIS is
pleased to announce that IBM is supporting a new curriculum initiative
in Services: Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) designed to
prepare graduate students for careers in the emerging multidisciplinary field of services sciences, engineering, and management.

Two scientists appointed as CITRIS leaders

We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new scientists to the CITRIS leadership. As of January 1, Prof. Alex Pang is the new Chief Scientist for the UC Santa Cruz campus, and Prof. Paul Wright is the Chief Scientist for the UC Berkeley campus.

RAD Lab established

Three technology companies are providing researchers at the University of California, Berkeley with $7.5 million to help entrepreneurs make their innovations available to as wide an audience as possible.

Citris Efforts for Katrina Relief and Infrastructure Rebuilding

On September 8 CITRIS held a Town Hall meeting to discuss strategies for the re-invigoration and rebuilding of the infrastructures devastated by hurricane Katrina. To this effect a new web site has been launched to coordinate the CITRIS Investigations of Hurricane Katrina.

Watch Video of Town Hall Meeting

New CITRIS-affiliated Center is Launched

The
College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,
recently announced the launch of the Center for Entrepreneurship and
Technology (CET), a new academic program and industry partnership that
will educate the next generation of technical leaders on
entrepreneurship in a changing, global economy. Read More >>