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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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.

Bassam Younis

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Computational Hydraulics, River Mechanics, Turbulence Modeling, Viscoelastic Fluids, Water Disinfection

Anthony Wexler

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Air Quality Research Center
UC Davis

Engineering, Air Quality And Enviromental Engineering, Air Quality Research; Atmospheric Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Cross-disciplinary Environmental Science

Yayoi Takamura

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Function Materials, Electronic Materials, Interfaces, Magnetic Materials, Materials Science, Spintronics, Synchrotron, Thin Films

Scott Simon

Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering and Dermatology
UC Davis

Health, Blood-cell Function, Neutrophil Immunology, Atherosclerosis, Infection, Inflammation, Neutrophils

Sabyasachi Sen

Blacutt-Underwood Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Materials Science, Amorphous Materials, Ceramics, Relaxation, Rheology, Scattering And Rheometry-based Characterization Techniques, Spectroscopy, Structure

James Quinn

Professor Emeritus, Environmental Science and Policy
UC Davis

Agricultural And Enviromental Sciences, Ecology, Agriculture Sustainability, Biodiversity, Climate Adaptation, Climate Policy, Conservation Ecology, Conservation Policy, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Informatics, Environmental Policy, Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Data Analytics, Gis, Global Change, Invasive Species, Land Planning, Land Use Change, Landscape Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Population And Community Ecology, Public Environmental Policy, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, Sustainable Development, Water Policy, Watershed Management

Atul Parikh

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Bio-inspired Materials And Biophysics, Biological Chemistry, Biomaterials, Biophysical Mechanisms, Membrane Biophysics, Soft Matter

Michael Neff

Professor, Computer Science and Cinema and Digital Media
UC Davis

Engineering And Letters And Science, Human-computer Interaction And Animation, Character Animation, Embodied Interaction, Gesture Modeling, Interactive Animation, Motion Capture, Nonverbal Communication, Virtual Reality

Prasant Mohapatra

Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of South Florida
UC Davis

Alan Meier

Adjunct Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Associate Director, Energy Efficiency Center
UC Davis

Letters And Science / Research, Energy Efficiency And Behavior, Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Energy Use Behavior, Environmental Economics, Standby Power Reduction, Sustainable Energy Policy

Karen McDonald

Distinguished Professor Emerita, Chemical Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Biomanufacturing, Biopharmaceutical Production, Genetic Engineering, Plant-based Vaccines, Protein Expression