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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Laura Marcu

Professor Director, Biomedical Engineering, Neurological Surgery
UC Davis

Engineering, Biomedical Optics, Biophotonics, Cardiovascular Imaging, Laser Spectroscopy, Optical Imaging, Tissue Diagnostics

Kwan-Liu Ma

Distinguished Professor, Computer Science
UC Davis

Engineering, Visualization And Visual Analytics, Data-driven Science, High-performance Computing, Large-scale Data Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Uncertainty Visualization, Visual Analytics

Jay Lund

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Vice-Director, Center for Watershed Sciences
UC Davis

Engineering, Systems Engineering, Climate Warming Impacts, Conjunctive Use, Decision Support Models, Environmental Management, Flood Control, Infrastructure Planning, Integrated Water Resources Management, Optimization Modeling, Public Works, Systems Analysis, Water Marketing, Water Supply Management

Reginald Low

Professor, Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Director of the Heart Center
UC Davis

Sashi Kunnath

Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Structural And Earthquake Engineering, Damage/collapse Prediction, Earthquake Engineering, Nonlinear Structural Modeling, Structural Dynamics

Amit Kanvinde

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Dean of Academic Personnel and Planning, College of Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Structural Engineering And Earthquake Resilience, Deformable Connections, Fracture Risk, Seismic Response Of Steel Buildings, Structural Performance

M. Saif Islam

Professor, Electrical Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Nanotechnology And Nanoelectronics, Energy Harvesting, Integrated Circuits, Nanosensors, Nanostructures, Optoelectronics, Photonics, Quantum Sensing, Semiconductor Devices

Andrew Hargadon

Professor of Technology Management, Graduate School of Management
UC Davis

Graduate School of Management, Innovation Management, Applied Research, Commercialization Science, Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Randd Management, Research And Development, Scholarly Publications, Sustainable Technologies, Technology Commercialization, Technology Management

Yueyue Fan

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Davis

Transportation Studies, Data Science And Computational Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Energy, Transportation

Research Exchange: Research to Further Education

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Dr. Gary Baldwin dies at 67

Dr. Gary Baldwin, Director of Special Projects, CITRIS @ Berkeley, passed away on November 16, 2010, after a short battle with cancer.

Research Exchange: Formal Methods for Dependable Computing: From Models, through Software, to Circuits

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Research Exchange: Leveraging Machine-learning and Crowdsourcing to Process Text Messages in the world’s Less-resourced Language

Text-messaging has quickly become the dominant form of remote communication in much of the world, surpassing email, phone calls and even grid electricity. This has social development and crisis response organizations to leverage mobile technologies to support health, banking, access to market information, literacy and emergency response.