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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Jinyi Qi

Dr. Jinyi Qi’s research focuses on developing advanced signal and image processing techniques for molecular imaging. One emphasis is on developing statistically based image reconstruction methods for emission tomography. The research involves modeling imaging system response, developing appropriate statistical models, developing optimization algorithms, and analyzing image properties.

Hien Nguyen

Dr. Nguyen serves as a member of the Biomedical Informatics team. Dr. Nguyen is the Medical Director of Electronic Medical Records, where he helps lead the implementation and integration of the Electronic Medical Record for the Health System. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, where he is a faculty member for both the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, His research interests include applied biomedical informatics, outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy, and nosocomial infections.

Kit Lam

Research Interests

Dr. Lam is an expert in combinatorial chemistry, chemical biology, drug development, molecular imaging, nanotherapeutics and medical oncology. Dr. Lam leads a very active research laboratory. He invented the one-bead-one-compound combinatorial library method. Many new advances in the chemical synthesis, encoding, screening and polymer support of the OBOC technology were developed in his laboratory. Dr.

David Culler appointed Faculty Director of i4Energy

The mission of i4Energy to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated enabling technologies that will achieve better energy efficiency, improved demand / response, and dramatic improvements in energy distribution.

Letter from the Director for April/May

The world is full of valuable information that, if known, would save money, lives, and numerous resources. The trusses supporting our bridges contain information about when the aging structures will become dangerous to cross.

Letter from the Director, Feb. 2011

For the last decade, we at CITRIS have focused our efforts there, developing intelligent technologies that help measure, track, and manage water, energy, and other key resources in innovative ways that benefit the economy, the environment, and our quality of life.

CITRIS Research Wins Award

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy’s research in “Tele-Immersion for Physicians” was recently awarded the CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award for High Performance Research Applications.

Qing Zhao

Qing Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In August 2004, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis where she is currently an Associate Professor. Prior to that, she was a communications system engineer with Aware, Inc., Bedford, MA.

Bassam Younis

Dr. Bassam Younis is professor at the University of California, Davis. His area of research is theoretical and computational aspects of fluid mechanics and turbulence. His expertise in computational environmental fluid mechanics includes turbulent flows and sediment transport in compound and meandering channels, modeling of three-dimensional flows in bays and estuaries, and modeling stratified mixing layers.

Anthony Wexler

My research focuses on understanding the atmospheric processes that transport and transform particulate pollutants in the atmosphere and in lungs. Experimental and modeling approaches are employed. Focus is on urban and regional smog and global climate change. Experimental work includes developing new instruments and deploying them in the field. Modeling work includes simulation of particle dynamics in the urban and regional atmosphere related, vehicle emissions, and deposition in human airways.

Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu

Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu did his undergraduate studies in Physics, with a major in Biophysics at the Bucharest University, Romania. In 2000 he received his PhD in Experimental Physics from Humboldt University/Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, where he used time-resolved Raman/CARS spectroscopy to investigate elementary chemical reactions.

Rao Vemuri

Professor Vemuri’s research interests are in the areas of digital media, soft computing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, digital communications, signal processing, simulation and modeling, and numerical methods. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Professor, B. E. Electrical Engineering, (1958); Ph.D., Engineering, UCLA, (1968); Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1970-73); Associate Professor, SUNY, Binghamton, NY (1973-81); Sub Project Manager, TRW, Redondo Beach (1981-86)

Yayoi Takamura

The development of next generation spintronic devices, sensors, and low temperature solid oxide fuel cells requires the development of materials with new functional properties not found in conventional bulk materials. A novel route involves harnessing the unexpected physical phenomena that result from the changes in structure and chemistry which occur over nanometer scales at surfaces and interfaces.