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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Carolynn Patten

Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
UC Davis

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Health

Iman Soltani

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Ai And Autonomous Systems, Robotics, Ai, Automation, Control, Machine Learning, Robotics

Xin Liu

Professor, Computer Science
UC Davis

Engineering, Computer Networks And Systems, Algorithm Development, Data-driven Systems, Machine Learning, Networking Protocols, Resource Allocation, Wireless Networks

Zhaodan Kong

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director of CITRIS at UC Davis
UC Davis

Engineering, Autonomous Systems And Control, Autonomous Systems, Control Theory, Controls, Cyber-physical Systems, Dynamics, Formal Methods, Human-systems Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics

Rebecca Hernandez

Associate Professor of Land, Air and Water Resources
UC Davis

Land, Air, and Water Resources, Climate, Health

Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez

Assistant Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Wildfire Science, Applied Research, Bilingual Wildfire Communications, Cross-border Program, Effects On People, English, Environmental Impacts, Fire Behavior, Spanish, Wildfire, Wildfire Education, Wildland-urban Interface, Wui

Zubair Shafiq

Professor, Computer Science
UC Davis

Engineering, Computer Security And Privacy, Online Privacy; Network Security; Machine Learning For Secure Systems; Internet Measurement

Stephen Robinson

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, 3d Scientific Visualization, Aerodynamic Testing, Applied Aerodynamics, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Flow Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, Instrumentation, Safety Engineering, Turbulence Flow Physics

Michele Barbato

Professor, Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics and Director, CITRIS Climate Initiative
UC Davis

Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Geotechnical Modeling, Resilient Infrastructure, Soil Mechanics

Houman Homayoun

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Computer Engineering And Security, Computer System Security, Energy‑efficient Computing, Hardware Security, Heterogeneous Computing, Malware Detection, Secure Microarchitecture