CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

UC Davis

UC Davis is renowned for cross-disciplinary research and teaching that draw upon 100 academic majors; 87 graduate programs; and professional schools in business, education, law, medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine. The campus connects the population-dense San Francisco Bay and Sacramento urban areas, natural resources in the Delta and the Sierra Nevada, and Central Valley agriculture. CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Davis brings expertise in engineering, nanoscience, law, and medicine to bear on complex challenges related to food, health, the environment, and society.

Just north of campus at the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, the Center for Health and Technology and the Center for Virtual Care improve the quality of healthcare through education, training, and specialty care services. This 52,000 square-foot joint facility offers HD-equipped classrooms, four telehealth training exam rooms, an inpatient room, outpatient clinic, and a technology demonstration suite. The Center for Virtual Care features a full-size emergency room trauma bay, operating room, inpatient unit, six-bay simulation education area, exam rooms, and sophisticated training mannequins. The adjacent media production studio makes on-site development and distribution of instructional media possible. These advanced training centers connect UC researchers and practitioners with remote clinics across the state of California, enabling the delivery of life-saving care and innovative IT solutions.

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Konstantinos Papamichael

Konstantinos Papamichael is Co-Director of the California Lighting Technology Center and Professor in the Department of Environmental Design. During the last 25 years, he has been working on the development of energy efficiency strategies and technologies for buildings, focusing on fenestration systems and daylighting, as well as the integration of electric lighting and fenestration controls. Moreover, Dr.

Madan Dharmar

Madan Dharmar is an associate professor in residence at the Betty Irene School of Nursing at UC Davis and the Department of Pediatrics at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

Mani Tripathi

Research Interests
Experimental high energy physics, solid state detector physics, ASICS, Radiation hardness, data acquisition, and computational physics, pixel detectors, gamma-ray astrophysics.

Kurt Kornbluth

Kurt Kornbluth is Associate Director of the UC Davis Blum Center for Developing Economies and Founding Director of the Program for International Energy Technologies/D-Lab at UC Davis. Kurt holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and has a research focus on renewable energy technologies, life cycle analysis and international development. He served as a Business Development Fellow with the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and an Edison International Energy Efficiency Fellow with the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center from 2007-08.

Motion Interfaces for Physical Therapy

Real-time motion capture and immersive 3D computer-generated environments are emerging as a powerful approach to numerous challenges, including health care challenges in clinical work and therapy.

Nael El-Farra

Research Interests
Process systems engineering, Nonlinear process control and estimation, Analysis and control of hybrid systems, Fault-tolerant control using switched actuator/sensor configurations, Control of transport-reaction and particulate processes, Computational modeling, simulation and systems-level analysis of biological systems