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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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

Allison Harvey

Allison Harvey is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychologist (License #PSY 22682) and Director of the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Harvey is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her clinical training and PhD were completed in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Harvey then moved to the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and then became a faculty member in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford.

Tom Turrentine

Dr. Turrentine studies the role of travel and movement in the evolution of culture, society and lifestyle. He focuses on understanding automobile-based lifestyles, applying anthropological methods and theories to explore potential responses of car users to new technologies and policies aimed at mitigating the negative impacts of automobile infrastructure and use. He has studied consumer responses to electric vehicles, alternative fueled vehicles, micro-vehicles, station car systems, advanced traveler information, and other intelligent transportation systems. Dr.