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

Professor Jan Rabaey

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

Engineering, Low-power Circuits, Hardware, Vlsi, Wireless

Nicholas Sitar

Professor Emeritus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Granular Deposits, Groundwater Remediation, Numerical Modeling, Retaining Structures, Rock Erosion, Rock Slope Stability, Rock-fluid Interaction, Seismic Loading, Slope Stability, Tunnel Performance, Wireless Sensor Networks

Paul Wright

Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering and former Director of CITRIS
UC Berkeley

Engineering, 3d Printing, 3d-dispenser Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing, Autonomous Sensors, Cyber-physical Systems, Demand Response, Design For Manufacturing, Energy Efficiency, Energy Harvesting, Energy Scavenging, Energy Storage, Energy-efficient Systems, First Responder Applications, Flexible Electronics, Intelligent Objects, Internet Of Things, Internet-based Manufacturing, Iot, Load-demand Modeling, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Products, Micro-integration, Micro-power Systems, Micro-scale Integration, Open-architecture Control, Printed Electronics, Screen-printing, Self-powered Wireless Nodes, Smart Materials, Supercapacitors, Teg, Thermoelectric Generators, Thin Film Batteries, Thin Film Solar Cells, Vibration Energy Harvesting, Wearable Sensors, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Systems, Wsn

David M. Auslander

Professor, Graduate School
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Mechanical Systems, Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals

Ali Niknejad

Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Rf/microwave Circuits, Analog Design, Antennas, Rf Circuits

Alice Agogino

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Product Design And Intelligent Systems, Design Theory, Gender Equity, Intelligent Learning Systems, Optimization, Sensor Networks

Anthony Joseph

Chancellor's Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Operating Systems, Computer Security, Distributed Systems, Mobile Computing, Network Security, Networked Systems, Networking, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Systems Security, Wireless Networking

Joseph Hellerstein

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

Engineering, Database Systems, Ai Systems, Data Management, Data Science Systems, Data Transformation, Data-oriented Systems, Distributed Consistency, Distributed Programming Models, Distributed Systems, Human–computer Interaction, Interactive Data Visualization, Isolation, Machine Learning Systems, Networking, Programming Languages, Query Processing, Serverless Computing, Systems Security

Professor Michael Franklin

Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Databases And Distributed Systems, Database Systems; Distributed Computing; Scalable Systems

Eric Brewer

Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Distributed Systems And Internet Architecture, Cap Theorem, Cloud Computing, Network Infrastructure, Scalable Systems

Susan Shaheen

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

Engineering, Sustainable Transportation, Benefit–cost Analysis, Connected Vehicles, Data-driven Transportation Research, Emerging Mobility Technologies, Energy Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Lifecycle Assessment, Policy Analysis, Shared Mobility, Sustainable Transportation, System Efficiency, Transportation Equity

Professor David Wagner

Professor, Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Cyber Security, Cellphone Security, Computer Security, Cryptography, Mobile Security, Secure Electronic Voting, Systems, Web Security

Kannan Ramchandran

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

Engineering, Signal Processing, Compression, Information Theory

Kristofer Pister

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

Engineering, Mems And Robotics, Robotics, Sensors, Smart Dust

Edward Lee

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

Engineering, Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical Systems, Embedded Systems, Real-time Computing

Kurt Keutzer

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

Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic Systems, Ai Systems Research, Algorithmic Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Efficiency, High-performance Ai, Large Language Models (llms), Machine Learning, Optimization For Ml, Scalable Ai Systems

Luke Lee

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

Engineering, Nanomedicine, Bioelectronics, Bioinspired Photonics, Biomagnetic Sensing, Bionanotechnology, Biopoets, Global Health, Green Building Technology, Integrated Optoelectronics, Living Building Systems, Nanomedicine, Optofluidics, Personalized Medicine, Squids

Alex Zettl

Professor Emeritus, Physics
UC Berkeley

Letters And Science, Nanomaterials, Boron Nitride Nanostructures, Characterize Novel Materials With Unusual Electronic And Magnetic Ground States, Condensed Matter Experiments, Condensed Matter Physics, Fullerenes, Giant Magnetoresistance Materials, Graphene, Low-dimensional And Nanoscale Structures, Nanotubes, Nems (nanoelectromechanical Systems), Neural Probes, Physics, Superconductors

Chenming Hu

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

Engineering, Semiconductors, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Devices